Giovanni Paolo Cavagna (c. 1550 – May 20, 1627) was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the late-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 mainly in Bergamo

Bergamo

Bergamo is a town and comune in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. The comune is home to over 120,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent the metropolitan area of Milan...

. He trained in Venice

Venice

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 with the studio of Titian

Titian

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near...

, then became a pupil of Giovanni Battista Moroni

Giovanni Battista Moroni

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 in Bergamo. His son Francesco, called Cavagnuola, was also a painter. He painted the Assumption of the Virgin, the Nativity, Esther and Ahasuerus for the church of Santa Maria Maggiore

Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo

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 in Bergamo. he also painted the Santa Lucia, the Crucifixion with many Saints for the church of Santo Spirito. He painted a Coronation of the Virgin for San Giovanni Bautista in Casnigo

Casnigo

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