Giovanni Coli (1636–1691) was an Italian painter from

Lucca Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957. Lucca is known as one o ...

, active in the

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 ...

style. He trained with

Pietro Paolini Pietro Paolini, called il Lucchese (3 June 1603 – 12 April 1681) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Working in Rome, Venice and finally his native Lucca, he was a follower of Caravaggio to whose work he responded in a very personal ...

in Lucca and then moved to Rome to work under

Pietro da Cortona Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...

. He often worked alongside

Filippo Gherardi Filippo Gherardi (1643–1704) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Lucca, he was mostly active in Venice and Rome, where he became a member of the large studio of Pietro da Cortona, often working closely with Giovanni Coli. Wit ...

. With Coli, Gherardi was initially a trainee of

in Lucca. In Venice, Coli and Gherardi also completed frescoes (1670–72) of the dome of the church of

San Nicolò da Tolentino Nicholas of Tolentino ( la, S. Nicolaus de Tolentino, (c. 1246September 10, 1305), known as the ''Patron of Holy Souls'', was an Italian saint and Mysticism, mystic. He is particularly invoked as an advocate for the souls in Purgatory, especial ...

with a fresco of the ''Glory of San Nicolò'', and in the massive decoration of the church of

San Pantalon The Chiesa di San Pantaleone Martire, known as San Pantalon in the Venetian dialect, is a church in the Dorsoduro ''sestiere'' of Venice, Italy. It is located on the Campo San Pantalon (square), and is dedicated to Saint Pantaleon. The 17th-centu ...

. In Venice, Coli and Gherardi frescoed the Library of

San Giorgio Maggiore San Giorgio Maggiore ( vec, San Zorzi Mazor) is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. The island, or more specifically its Palladian church, is an important landmark. It ha ...

Bibliography

*D. Ton, Giovanni Coli. Filippo Gherardi, in "Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell'Arte", 31, 2007 (2009), pp. 1–174.

External links

Short biography from Italycyberguide.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Coli, Giovanni 1636 births 1691 deaths Italian Baroque painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Lucca