Giovanni Antonio Amato
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Giovanni Antonio Amato was an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 painter of the Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 period, active in Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

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He was also called il Vecchio. He followed the style of Pietro Perugino
Pietro Perugino
Pietro Perugino , born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance...

, and among his pupils were Giovanni Vincenzo Corso
Giovanni Vincenzo Corso
Giovanni Vincenzo Corso was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Naples. He was a pupil of Giovanni Antonio Amato and influenced by Pietro Perugino, Andrea Sabbatini, and Polidoro da Caravaggio, and subsequently went to Rome, where he assisted Perin del Vaga...

, Giovanni Bernardo Lama
Giovanni Bernardo Lama
Giovanni Bernardo Lama was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples. He was the son of a generally unknown artist, Matteo Lama. He was the apprentice of Giovanni Antonio D’Amato, then Polidoro da Caravaggio who had fled Rome after the Sack of 1527. He worked in the...

, Battista Loca, Pietro Negroni
Pietro Negroni
Pietro Negroni was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples. He was also known as Il Giovane Zingaro and appears to have been born near Cosenza. He was a pupil of the painters Giovanni Antonio D’Amato and Marco Calabrese, and strongly influenced by Polidoro da Caravaggio...

, Simone il Giovane Papa, and Cesare Turco
Cesare Turco
Cesare Turco was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Ischitella near Foggia. He was a pupil of Giovanni Antonio d'Amato but afterwards studied under Andrea Sabbatini. He painted for the churches and public buildings of Naples. He painted the Baptism of Christ by St...

. His nephew, Giovanni Antonio di Amato the younger
Giovanni Antonio di Amato the younger
Giovanni Antonio d'Amato the younger was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his natal city of Naples....

 married the painter Mariangiola Criscuolo
Mariangiola Criscuolo
Mariangiola Criscuolo was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in her natal city of Naples.Born to painter Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo; her uncle, Giovanni Angelo was also a painter. She married the painter Giovanni Antonio d'Amato il giovane. She excelled in painting...

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