Giovanni Martino Spanzotti (c. 1455 – c. 1528; also known as ''Gian Martino Spanzotti'') was an Italian painter active in

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and northern

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Biography

He was born in

Casale Monferrato Casale Monferrato () is a town in the Piedmont region of Italy, in the province of Alessandria. It is situated about east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrat hills. Beyond the river lies the ...

and died in Chivasso. Little is known of his life. Born into a family of painters from

Varese Varese ( , , or ; lmo, label=Varesino, Varés ; la, Baretium; archaic german: Väris) is a city and ''comune'' in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north-west of Milan. The population of Varese in 2018 has reached 80,559. It is the ca ...

, he likely apprenticed with his father, Pietro. He appears to have had contacts with either

Francesco del Cossa Francesco del Cossa (c. 1430 – c. 1477) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the School of Ferrara, who after 1470 worked in Bologna. Cossa is best known for his frescoes, especially his collaboration with Cosimo Tura on a cycle of the mo ...

or his works, including the ''Madonna Enthroned'' (or ''Madonna Tucker'') in the Turin City Museum of Ancient Art. Other influences are

Zanetto Bugatto Zanetto Bugatto (1493 in Milan – ~1476 in Pavia or Milan), also known as Zanetto Bugatti, was one of the most well documented court portraitists of the 1400s. A key painter of the Lombardy region, Bugatto worked for 15 years for the first two S ...

and

Vincenzo Foppa Vincenzo Foppa ( – ) was an Italian painter from the Renaissance period. While few of his works survive, he was an esteemed and influential painter during his time and is considered the preeminent leader of the Early Lombard School. He spent hi ...

. Spanzotti painted between 1480 and 1498 in the

, as well as in Casale Monferrato and

Vercelli Vercelli (; pms, Vërsèj ), is a city and ''comune'' of 46,552 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy. One of the oldest urban sites in northern Italy, it was founded, according to most historians, ...

. Works from this period include the Triptych in the

Galleria Sabauda The Galleria Sabauda is an art collection in the Italian city of Turin, which contains the royal art collections amassed by the House of Savoy over the centuries. It is located on Via XX Settembre, 86. The museum, whose first directors were Rober ...

(his sole signed work) and the ''Adoration with Child'' in Rivarolo Canavese. Around 1485-1490 he executed a cycle of frescoes of the ''Life of Christ'' in the church of San Bernardino in Ivrea. His pupils included

il Sodoma Il Sodoma (1477 – 14 February 1549) was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of ...

and

Defendente Ferrari Defendente Ferrari (c. 1480/1485 – c. 1540) was an Italian painter active in Piedmont. His work marks the transition from late Gothic traditions to Renaissance art in the region. Life and work Ferrari was born at Chivasso, near Turin. ...

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External links

Spanzotti Giovanni Martino
from the Marchesi Monferrato site. {{DEFAULTSORT:Spanzotti, Giovanni Martino 1450s births 1520s deaths People from Casale Monferrato 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Piedmont