Giacomo Apollonio (1584 in Bassano – 1 December 1654 in Bassano) was an Italian painter of the late-

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD ...

and early- Baroque periods. Born to a daughter of

Jacopo Bassano Jacopo Bassano (c. 1510 – 14 February 1592), known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, and took the village as his surname. Trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco t ...

, and trained with his uncles Gerolamo and Giovanni Battista (del Ponte) Bassano. The church of Santa Eulalia in Borso del Grappa has an Apollonio painting of ''Christ ascending above Saints Giustina, John the Evangelist, and Prosdocimus''. Giacomo trained the painters Nicola de' Nicoli and Marcantonio Dordi. His nephew Marcantonio Apollonio (died 1729) is described as a mediocre painter.Notizie intorno alla vita e alle opere de' pittori scultori e intagliatori
by Giovanni Battista Verci, Amedeo Gabrieli, page 230-231.

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1584 births 1654 deaths People from Bassano del Grappa 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub