Giovanni Antonio Scaramuccia (1580–1633) was an

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painter, active mainly in

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and

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Biography

He initially trained as a sculptor, and was enrolled as a member of the Collegio di Pietra e Legname (the guild of stonemasons and woodworkers) in 1614. He is described as a pupil of

Cristoforo Roncalli Cristoforo Roncalli (c. 1552–1626) was an Italian mannerist painter. He was one of the three painters known as ''Pomarancio'' or ''Il Pomarancio''. Life Roncalli was born in Pomarance, a town near Volterra. His training occurred in ...

in Rome. Among his pupils were his son,

Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia (1616–1680) was an Italian painter and artist biographer of the Baroque period. He was a pupil, along with Giovanni Domenico Cerrini of the painter Guido Reni. Born in Perugia to the painter Giovanni Antonio Scara ...

Giovanni Domenico Cerrini Giovanni Domenico Cerrini (1609–1681), also called ''Gian Domenico Cerrini'' or ''il Cavalier Perugino'', was a painter of the Baroque period, born in Perugia and active mainly in Rome and influenced in large part by painters of the Bolognese ...

and

Paolo Gismondi Paolo Gismondi (known also as Paolo Perugino) (1612 in Perugia – 1685) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was a pupil of Giovanni Antonio Scaramuccia in Perugia, then of Pietro da Cortona in Rome. Under commission by Cardinal Ba ...

. He painted a series of panels depicting subjects of the New Testament for the Oratory of San Francesco in Perugia.Key to Umbria
short biography. He painted a

mannerist Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, ...

''Virgin and St Augustine'' (1625) for the Oratory of St Augustine in Perugia.

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1580 births 1633 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Mannerist painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub