Domenico Maria Viani (1668–1711) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
period.
Biography
Christ rejects those contesting the Eucharist
He was born in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
, the son of
Giovanni Maria Viani
Giovanni Maria Viani (1636–1700) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Bologna.
Biography
Along with Lorenzo Pasinelli, he trained under Flaminio Torre. Among Giovanni's pupils was his son, Domenico (1668–1711), Giovanni ...
, and was educated there under his father, who kept a rival academy to that of
Carlo Cignani
Carlo Cignani (15 May 1628 – 8 September 1719) was an Italian painter. His innovative style referred to as his 'new manner' introduced a reflective, intimate mood of painting and presaged the later pictures of Guido Reni and Guercino, as well ...
. For the church of La Natività at Bologna, there is a series of Prophets and Evangelists by him; for the church of
Santo Spirito, Bergamo, he painted a ''Miracle of St Antony of Padua''. He disappeared in
Pistoia
Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...
where he is also thought to have died.
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1668 births
1711 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
18th-century Italian painters
Italian Baroque painters
Painters from Bologna
18th-century Italian male artists
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