Giovanni Baleison or Giovanni Belisoni (active 1480–1500) was an Italian fresco artist, active in the Piedmont, Liguria, and France.

Biography

He was born in

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. He executed frescoes at a number of churches, including

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Churches of

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. He also painted frescoes (1482-1485) for the chapel of St Sebastian in the church of Santi Sebastiano e Fabiano in

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. The frescoes depict the infancy of Christ: ''Nativity'', ''Adoration by the magi'', plus an Apocriphal story about the ''Miracle of the Grain during the Flight to Egypt''. Also there are frescoes depicting the ''Life of Saint Sebastian''. He painted an ''Enthroned Madonna'' in the apse of the church of Santa Maria della Pieve in

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. Other frescoes in the church are attributed to

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regarding Beinette church.

References

15th-century births 16th-century deaths People from Demonte 15th-century French painters French male painters 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub