Giovanni Giacomo Pandolfi (first name also spelled Gian or Giovan) (1567–1636) was an Italian

Italy

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 painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

, who was born and lived in Pesaro

Pesaro

Pesaro is a town and comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. According to the 2007 census, its population was 92,206....

. He studied with Federico

Federico Zuccari

Federico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro , was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad.-Biography:Zuccari was born at Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino ....

 and Taddeo Zuccari

Taddeo Zuccari

Taddeo Zuccari was an Italian painter, one of the most popular members of the Roman mannerist school.-Biography:...

, but was strongly influenced by another artist, Federico Barocci

Federico Barocci

Federico Barocci was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio, which still in northwestern Italian dialects means a two wheel cart drawn by oxen...

. His best known work adorns the ceiling and the oratorio

Oratorio

An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...

 of the church of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Name of God, in Pesaro, which was realized from 1617 to 1619. He has also many paintings in other churches and convent

Convent

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s in Pesaro, Fano

Fano

Fano is a town and comune of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. It is a beach resort 12 km southeast of Pesaro, located where the Via Flaminia reaches the Adriatic Sea...

, Sant'Angelo in Vado

Sant'Angelo in Vado

Sant'Angelo in Vado is a comune in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino in the Italian region Marche, located about 90 km west of Ancona and about 50 km southwest of Pesaro....

 and other cities, such as in the Church of Sant'Andrea, in the Church of San Gimignano, and in the Church of San Filippo, respectively.

His style follows the Emilian mannerism

Mannerism

Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...

, characterized by the sfumato

Sfumato

Sfumato is one of the four canonical painting modes of the Renaissance .The most prominent practitioner of sfumato was Leonardo da Vinci, and his famous painting of the Mona Lisa exhibits the technique. Leonardo da Vinci described sfumato as "without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke or...

 of colors and well rounded human bodies. One of his students was Simone Cantarini

Simone Cantarini

Simone Cantarini , also known as Simone da Pesaro, was an Italian painter and etcher of the Bolognese School of painting.Cantarini was born in Oropezza near Pesaro, then part of the Papal States....

.

External links

• The Name of God Oratory in Pesaro. Musei Online.