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Giovanni Maria Morandi (30 April 1622 – 18 February 1717) was an Italian

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painter, known for

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s and portraits.

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He was born in

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. He studied art with Orazio Fidani and Giovanni Bilivert. Very few works date from this period, although a painting of Christ at the (demolished) is mentioned by Raffaelo Del Bruno in his guide book to Florence (1757). He probably left there sometime in the late 1640s or early 1650s. Most of his career was spent in Rome, where he painted numerous altarpieces, including the '' Death of Mary'' in the church of

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(1664). He also worked at

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, where he depicted the

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, Santa Maria del Popolo, where he painted a '' Visitation'', and

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, where he created a ''Visitation'' and a '' Marriage of the Virgin''. In addition, he painted murals on mythological subjects at the Palazzo Salviati in

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. He became a member of the

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where, in 1671, he served as director. In 1690, he entered the newly founded Pontifical Academy of Arcadia under the name "Mantino Agoriense". Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, ''Istoria della volgar poesia'' (1698). Reprinted by the Nabu Press (2011) For many years, he had a workshop that was very popular. His students there included Francesco Zuccarelli, Francesco Conti, Odoardo Vicinelli and Pietro Nelli. His patrons included Emperor Leopold I and Pope

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, who provided most of his commissions, in Rome and

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, where he was the official portraitist for the Pope's family, the Chigis. Also in Siena, he painted an ''

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'' for the church at Santa Maria della Scala, and a ''Saint

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in Ecstasy'' at Siena Cathedral. Morandi died in Rome on 18 February 1717.

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*Laura Mocci, MORANDI, Giovanni Maria, in ''Dizionario biografico degli italiani'', vol. 76,
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