''The mission of the Apostles '' Abbey of Santa Giustina Giovanni Battista Bissoni (1576–1636) was an Italian painter. He was born in

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. He was first a pupil of

Francesco Apollodoro Francesco Porcia or Francesco Apollodoro ( Porcia in the Friuli, 1531 - Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital ...

, called ''Il Porcia'', a portrait painter, and afterwards of

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. Bissoni painted for the churches and convents at Padua and

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. In the refectory of the convent of San Vitale, he painted a ''Last Supper''. Biografia degli artisti Padovani
By Napoleone Pietrucci, page 34.

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* 1576 births 1636 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Padua {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub