Giovanni Francesco Cassana (1611–1691) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque period, active mainly in
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...
.
Biography
He was a pupil of the painter
Bernardo Strozzi
Bernardo Strozzi, named il Cappuccino and il Prete Genovese (c. 1581 – 2 August 1644) was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver. A canvas and fresco artist, his wide subject range included history, allegorical, genre and portrait paintin ...
. His pupils included his son
Niccolò Cassana
Niccolò Cassana (often called Nicoletto; 1659–1714) was an Italian painter born in Venice and active during the late-Baroque. His older brother Giovanni Agostino Cassana was also a painter.
He trained with his father, Giovanni Francesco Cass ...
,
Niccolò Bambini, and
Giovanni Battista Langetti. He was known chiefly as a portrait artist. He passed some time at the Court of
Mirandola
Mirandola ( Mirandolese: ) is a city and ''comune'' of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, in the Province of Modena, northeast of the provincial capital by railway.
History
Mirandola originated as a Renaissance city-fortress. For four centuries it was ...
, where he painted a ''St. Jerome'' in the church of that town.
His younger brother, Giovanni Agostino (died 1720), painted for the Grand duke of Tuscany, but died in Genoa. His sister,
Maria Vittoria Cassana, studied under Giovanni Agostino. She died in Venice in 1711. Giovanni Francesco's son,
Giovanni Battista, was also a painter.
See also
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Cassana (family)
References
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1611 births
1691 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Genoa
Italian Baroque painters
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