Giovanni Do (before 1617 – ?1656) was a Spanish painter, active in

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. He was born in the town of

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, near

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in Spain. By 1626, Giovanni Do was in Naples, and that year he married Grazia, sister of Pacecco De Rosa; the marriage contract describes him as Spanish and states the painters

Giovanni Battista Caracciolo Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (also called Battistello) (1578–1635) was an Italian artist and important Neapolitan follower of Caravaggio. He was a member of the murderous Cabal of Naples, with Belisario Corenzio and Giambattista Caracciolo, wh ...

and fellow Spaniard

Jusepe de Ribera Jusepe de Ribera (1591 – 1652) was a painter and printmaker, who along with Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and the singular Diego Velázquez, are regarded as the major artists of Spanish Baroque painting. Referring to ...

as witnesses. His only masterpiece, and firm attribution, is his gloom-stricken

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‘'Adoration of shepherds'’ for the

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in Naples. The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid owns a beautiful ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' proved to be a versión of an unpublished original by Ribera, of similar measures, was discovered that in 2012 appeared on the Art market.

References

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Artnet biography from Grove encyclopedia or Art.

External links

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Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652
', a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Giovanni Do (see index) 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Naples Spanish Baroque painters 1650s deaths Year of birth uncertain People from Xàtiva Spanish male painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub