Giovanni Andrea Sirani (4 September 1610 – 21 May 1670) was an Italian
Baroque painter from
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, 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 1 ...
.
He is best known as the father of the female painter
Elisabetta Sirani
Elisabetta Sirani (8 January 1638 – 28 August 1665) was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker who died in unexplained circumstances at the age of 27. She was a pioneering female artist in early modern Bologna, who established an academy fo ...
. Sirani trained initially with
Giacomo Cavedone
Giacomo Cavedone (also called ''Giacomo Cavedoni'') (1577–1660) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School.
Life
He belonged to the generation of Carracci-inspired or trained painters that included Giovanni Andrea Donducci (Maste ...
, then worked in the studio with
Guido Reni. He became entangled in various conspiracies circling around the death of his daughter in 1665. While Giovanni accused a maid of poisoning his daughter, others saw Giovanni as the origin of death from stomach ulcer by overwork.
References
Web Gallery of Art Biography
1610 births
1670 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Bologna
Italian Baroque painters
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