art.wikisort.org - Artist

Search / Calendar

Giovanni Monevi or Monevo (May 19, 1637   December 15, 1714) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.[1][2] The name Giovanni Moneri is used by a number of authors, but may reflect a misspelling.[3][4][5]

Entombment of Christ by Giovanni Moneri
Entombment of Christ by Giovanni Moneri

Biography


He was born in Visone, near Acqui, in the Piedmont. He was sent by his parents to Rome, to study under Giovanni Francesco Romanelli. He also studied in Turin. He returned in 1657 to paint an Assumption of the Virgin for the Cathedral of Acqui. In a chapel, he painted a scene of Paradise. He also painted scenes of the Life of St Francis in the cloister of church of San Francesco. He painted an Annuciation for the church in Terme Reali. He painted the main altarpiece Presentation of Mary at the Temple for the church of the Capuchins in Acqui Termi. A Last Supper is painted in the refectory of the Osservanti in Strevi. He also painted in the cloister of San Bernardino in Moncalvo.

His sons Giovanni Battista and Francesco were also a painter as well as a priest. The former, parish priest of Visone between 1690 and 1723, painted a San Rocco for a church in Acqui. The latter traveled to Rome to study, but died young.[6]


References


  1. Restoration of Monevi painting in Santi Pietro e Paolo, Visone Archived August 14, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, cited in L'ANCORA settimanale di informazione, published in Acqui Termi.
  2. Comune of Visone, personaggi.
  3. Il costume antico e moderno o storia del governo, by Giulio Ferrario, page 787.
  4. Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons.
  5. An entry for Giovanni Moneri is found in Preface for an edition of Giorgio Vasari, Vite de’ più eccellenti pittori scultori e architetti, rev. by Guglielmo della Valle, 11 vols (Siena: Pazzani Carli, 1791–94) XI (1794), p. 35.
  6. Guglielmo della Valle, page 35.

На других языках

- [en] Giovanni Monevi

[fr] Giovanni Moneri

Giovanni Moneri (né le 19 mai 1637 à Visone, dans la province d'Alexandrie au Piémont, et mort en 1714) est un peintre italien baroque, actif dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe et les premières années du XVIIIe siècle.

[it] Giovanni Monevi

Giovanni Monevi o Monevo (Visone, 18 maggio 1637 – Visone, 15 dicembre 1714) è stato un pittore italiano del periodo barocco.


Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2025
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии