Giovanni Maria Zaffoni ( – after 1570) was an Italian painter of the

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period, active in

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near his natal city of

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. He is also known as ''Giovanni Maria Calderari'' or as ''il Calderari''. He first trained with

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, known as ''il Pordenone'' and later with Pomponio Amalteo.Contributo secondo-quarto ed ultimo, alla storia dell'arte nel Friuli
By Vincenzo Joppi, page 32. He painted the frescoes on ''Scenes of the life of Christ and the Virgin'' for the Mantica chapel (1554-1555) in the Duomo of San Marco in Pordenone. He also painted frescoes in the church of Santissima Trinità in Pordenone, as well as in

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, where he painted a series of frescoes on the ''Life of the Virgin'' (1560–63) in the apse of the church of San Rocco. Additional frescoes attributed to Zaffoni are present in

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, and a ''Nativity, various Saints, and Patron in armor'' (1542) for the Church of Pescincanna in

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Biography in Italian.
1500s births 1564 deaths People from Pordenone 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Renaissance painters Fresco painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub