Giovanni Maria Baldassini (active 16th century) was an
Italian painter of the late
Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...
period.
He was a pupil of
Benedetto Nucci. He was active in
Gubbio
Gubbio () is an Italian town and ''comune'' in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria). It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennines.
History
The city's origins are very ancient. ...
where he painted the "Trasfigurazione del Signore sul Monte Tabor e Santi (
Basilica of Saint Ubaldo in Gubbio). In the latter, his native town, he painted a ''Madonna del Rosario'' (1620) for the church of San Nicolò in Cantiano.
Memorie e guida storica di Gubbio
by Oderigi Lucarelli, Stab. Tipografia Literaria S. Lapi, (1888), Citta di Castello, page 448.
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16th-century births
1600s deaths
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian Renaissance painters
Umbrian painters
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