Giovanni Battista Calandra (1586 - c. 1644) was an Italian

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artist in the

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. He was born at

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in 1586. In the pontificate of

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, it was found that the dampness of St. Peter's materially affected canvases, and henceforth it was determined to remove the principal pictures, and to replace them with copies in mosaic, of which the first was executed by Calandra, after the ''St. Michael'' of Cesare D'Arpino. With this were ''The Four Doctors of the Church'', ''St. Peter'', ''St. Paul'', and others in the cupolas, after the cartoons of D'Arpino, Romanelli, Lanfranco, Sacchi, and Pellegrini. He also executed a ''Madonna'' after

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for the

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* 1568 births 1640s deaths 16th-century Italian painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian mosaic artists people from Vercelli {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub