Giovanni Bizzelli (1556 – around 1 August 1607 or 1612) was an Italian painter of the late-

Mannerist Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it ...

period. He was a pupil of Alessandro Allori. He afterwards went to

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. On his return to

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he helped

Antonio Tempesta Antonio Tempesta, also called il Tempestino (1555 – 5 August 1630), was an Italian painter and engraver, whose art acted as a point of connection between Roman Baroque, Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp. Much of his work depicts major ba ...

in the decoration of the vaults of the

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Corridor.

Works

* ''Pietà'' (1579, Pieve di San'Ippolito) * ''Annunciation'' (1584, Uffizi, Florencia) * ''St Macario enthroned with St Jerome and St Francis'' (1585–1590), Sant'Angelo a Lecore church, Signa * ''Joanna of Austria with her son Philip de Medici'' (1586,

) * ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' (Colegio del Corpus Christi, Valencia) * ''Penitent Magdalen'' (Museum of Fine Arts, Valencia) * ''Pentecost'' (c. 1590), San Pietro a Grignano church, Grignano, neighborhood of

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* ''Coronation of Virgin by Trinity with Saints John the Baptist, John Evangelist, Romualdo e Benedetto'' (1600), San Giovanni Evangelista Monastery, Pratovecchio * ''Martyrdom of St James the Great'' (1601) Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, Florence * ''Baptism of St Augustine'' (1603), Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Prato * Frescoes at Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi church, Borgo Pinti, Florence

References

* 1556 births 17th-century deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Florence Italian Mannerist painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub