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Marzio di Colantonio or di Colantonio Ganassini or di Cola Antonio (c. 1580s – after 1623) was an Italian painter, as a painter of still-lifes and landscapes, and fresco decorations of ''grotteschi'' and battle scenes with small figures. His still-life paintings contain hunted game.
Biblioteca Viterbo
monograph by Noris Angeli.
Marzio di Colantonio or di Colantonio Ganassini or di Cola Antonio (c. 1580s – after 1623) was an Italian painter, as a painter of still-lifes and landscapes, and fresco decorations of ''grotteschi'' and battle scenes with small figures. His still-life paintings contain hunted game.
Biography
He was born in Rome, and trained initially under his father, a painter of Grotteschi. He is said to have then trained under Antonio Tempesta. He painted some sacred subjects including frescoes for the church ofSanta Maria della Consolazione
Santa Maria della Consolazione is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, Italy at the foot of the Palatine Hill, in rione Campitelli.
History
The church is named after an icon of the Virgin Mary which was placed on this site to console criminals who we ...
of Rome, he was best known for his battle paintings, for which he was recruited by the Cardinal of Savoy to work for a time in Piedmont for the House of Savoy. He died young in Viterbo.monograph by Noris Angeli.
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