Giovanni Giacomo Semenza (18 July 1580 – 1638) was an Italian painter of the early

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. 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 ...

and also known as ''Giacomo Sementi''. He was a pupil of the painter Denis Calvaert, then of

Guido Reni Guido Reni (; 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious ...

. Among his pupils were Giacinto Brandi. He painted a ''Christ the Redeemer'' for the church of St. Catherine in Bologna.

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Giovanni Baglione Giovanni Baglione (1566 – 30 December 1643) was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. He is best remembered for his acrimonious and damaging involvement with the slightly younger artist Caravaggio and ...

. p. 230. *Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins, Volume IV, Scribner and Sons (1887): page 169. 1580 births 1638 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub