Giovanni de Mio or Demio, also called ''il Fratino'' or ''Fratina'' or ''l'Indemio'', (after 1510 in

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– c. 1570) was an Italian painter and mosaicist of the

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Biography

He was said to have been a pupil of

Giovanni Battista Maganza Giovanni Battista Maganza (c. 1513–August 25, 1586) was a late Renaissance Italian painter and poet, from Vicenza in the area of Calaone, mainly producing religious altarpieces for local churches. Biography Maganza was also a poet and a frie ...

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. He is documented to have been active in 1537 (

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), in 1538–1539 (

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with

Vincenzo Bianchini (painter) Vincenzo Bianchini (Viterbo, 1903 – Geneva, 2000) was a doctor, painter, sculptor, writer, poet, and philosopher. Life After studying classics and music at Viterbo, he enrolled in the faculty of political sciences at Florence, shortly before ...

), in 1544-1548 (at the Sauli Chapel in Santa Maria delle Grazie. He also painted frescoes in

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, and in a church in

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. In 1556 he painted some canvases for the

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