Francesco Giugno (1577 - c. 1621) was an Italian painter of the late
Mannerist
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and early-
Baroque
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periods, mainly active in
Brescia
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and
Mantua
Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name.
In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture ...
.
Born in Brescia, he became a pupil of
Pietro Marone, and then of
Palma il Giovane
Iacopo Negretti (1548/50 – 14 October 1628), best known as Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane or simply Palma Giovane ("Young Palma"), was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school.
After Tintoretto's death ...
. He died in Mantua.
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1577 births
1620s deaths
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
17th-century Italian painters
Painters from Brescia
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