Giovanni Battista Sassi (1679 in

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

– 1762 in Milan) was an Italian painter, active mainly in

and other areas of

Lombardy The Lombardy Region (; ) is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Lombardy is ...

, who painted in a late-

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

and

Rococo Rococo, less commonly Roccoco ( , ; or ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpte ...

style.

Biography

Born in Lombardy, he first trained with

Federigo Panza Federico or Federigo Panza (Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The ...

,Supplemento alla Serie dei trecento elogi e ritratti degli uomini i più illustri in Pittura , Scultura, e Architettura.
by Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, published by Stamperia Allegrini, Pisoni, e comp, Florence (1776); column 664. then moved to study painting in the studio of the Neapolitan painter

Francesco Solimena Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian Baroque painter, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. Biography Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of Avellino. H ...

. His first works in Milan date from 1716. In the church of

San Pietro in Verzolo The Church of San Pietro in Verzolo is located on the eastern outskirts of Pavia, Italy, along the Via Francigena. History The church was built outside the walls of Pavia and along the ancient Roman road that connected Pavia with Cremona and ...

Pavia Pavia ( , ; ; ; ; ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, in Northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino (river), Ticino near its confluence with the Po (river), Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was a major polit ...

, above the altar, there is a canvas depicting the Virgin and Child with Saint Bernard, dated 1713, and in the church of San Giovanni Domnarum the altarpiece with Saint Andrew. His brother was a Prefect of the

Accademia Ambrosiana The Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, also housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery. Named after Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, it was founded in 1609 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, whose agen ...

and thus member of the Academy of Design. He painted frescos for the Palazzo Modigliani in Lodi, the Palazzo Brentano of Corbetta, where other artists such as

Mattia Bortoloni Mattia Bortoloni (31 March 1696 – 9 June 1750) was a painter of the early Italian Rococo period. He began his career as a student of Antonio Balestra of Verona and was active throughout northern Italy. Biography For many years the growth of ...

, Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Giovanni Antonio Cucchi, and Ferdinando Porta, were working. He helped fresco, along with Cucchi, the ceiling for the Church of San Francesco of Assisi in Brescia. He also painted the altarpiece for the main altar with the ''Virgin and child with St Zeno, Rusticiano, and Vincenzo de Paoli'' for the church of San Zeno al Foro of Brescia. His masterwork is the decoration of the chapel of St Stephen of the Duomo di Monza, where he painted a ''Burial of St Stephen'' in 1723. Among his pupils were

Francesco Londonio Francesco Londonio (Milan, 1723 – Milan, 1783)* was an Italy, Italian painter, engraver, and scenographer, active mainly in Milan in a late-Baroque or Rococo style. Londonio trained as a painter under Ferdinando Porta and Giovanni Battist ...

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* (Original from the Fogg Library; digitized May 18, 2007) 1679 births 1762 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Milan Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub