Giovanni Bizzelli (1556 – around 1 August 1607 or 1612) was an Italian painter of the late-

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period. He was a pupil of

Alessandro Allori Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (Florence, 31 May 153522 September 1607) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. Biography In 1540, after the death of his father, Allori was brought up and train ...

. He afterwards went to

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. On his return to

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he helped

Antonio Tempesta Antonio Tempesta, also called il Tempestino (1555 – 5 August 1630), was an Italian painter and engraver, whose art acted as a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp. Much of his work depicts major battles and his ...

in the decoration of the vaults of the

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Corridor.

Works

* ''Pietà'' (1579, Pieve di San'Ippolito) * ''Annunciation'' (1584, Uffizi, Florencia) * ''St Macario enthroned with St Jerome and St Francis'' (1585-1590), Sant'Angelo a Lecore church, Signa * ''Joanna of Austria with her son Philip de Medici'' (1586,

) * ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' (Colegio del Corpus Christi, Valencia) * ''Penitent Magdalen'' (Museum of Fine Arts, Valencia) * ''Pentecost'' (c. 1590), San Pietro a Grignano church, Grignano, neighborhood of Prato * ''Coronation of Virgin by Trinity with Saints John the Baptist, John Evangelist, Romualdo e Benedetto'' (1600), San Giovanni Evangelista Monastery,

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* ''Martyrdom of St James the Great'' (1601) Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, Florence * ''Baptism of St Augustine'' (1603), Chiesa di

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* Frescoes at Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi church, Borgo Pinti, Florence

References

* 1556 births 1612 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Florence Italian Mannerist painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub