Giovanni Battista Cungi (active, 1538 - 1542) was an Italian painter of the late-

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Mannerist Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, ...

period, active mainly in

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and

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Biography

He was born in

Borgo San Sepolcro Sansepolcro, formerly Borgo Santo Sepolcro, is a town and ''comune'' founded in the 11th century, located in the Italian Province of Arezzo in the eastern part of the region of Tuscany. Situated on the upper reaches of the Tiber river, the town ...

and pupil of

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work ''The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculpt ...

, for whom in 1538 he made designs from Roman monuments, specifically

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. He then aided Cristoforo Gherardi in the decoration, with mythologic subjects and grotteschi, of the

Castello Bufalini The Castello Bufalini is a castle-residence outside of the town of San Giustino, Province of Perugia, in the Region of Umbria, Italy. History Built in medieval period by the Ghibelline Dotti family of Sansepolcro, it was rebuilt in the Renaissanc ...

in San Giustino in Umbria. An ''Annunciation'' by Cungi is present in the Museo Civico di Sansepolcro.Museo Civico di Sansepolcro
biographies of artists.

References

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