Giovanni Gavazzeni (13 September 1841 – 29 November 1907) was an Italian painter of portraits and sacred subjects. He was born in

Talamona Talamona () is a (municipality) in the Province of Sondrio in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about west of Sondrio. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,623 and an area of .All demographics and o ...

in the Valtellina. Giovanni studied at the

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in Bergamo under Enrico Scuri. He painted a ''Virgin Mary with Souls in Heaven'' for the chapel in the cemetery of

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, as well as devotional frescoes on the walls of houses. He also painted frescoes for churches in Caspoggio, Ponte, and a ''Holy Family'' for the parish church in Villa di Tirano. He also painted the ceiling (''Assumption of the Virgin'') and a chapel (''Death of St Joseph'') of the Collegiata in

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.E. Bassi, page 69.

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