Giovanni da San Giovanni (March 20, 1592 – December 9, 1636), also known as Giovanni Mannozzi, was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the early Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period.

Biography

Born in San Giovanni Valdarno

San Giovanni Valdarno

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, he trained under Matteo Rosselli

Matteo Rosselli

Matteo Rosselli was an Italian painter of the late Florentine Counter-Maniera and early Baroque. He is best known however for his highly-populated grand-manner historical paintings.-Biography:...

. Mannozzi started the decoration of the Sala degli Argenti in the Palazzo Pitti

Palazzo Pitti

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 and planned decorations at Villa La Petraia

Villa La Petraia

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. His biography was featured by Filippo Baldinucci

Filippo Baldinucci

Filippo Baldinucci was an Italian art historian and biographer.-Life:Baldinucci is considered among the most significant Florentine biographers/historians of the artists and the arts of the Baroque period...

. In 1615 he painted two ceiling canvases of Putti Supporting the profile of Michelangelo for the Casa Buonarroti

Casa Buonarroti

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 and in the same period frescoed a choir of musician-angels for the dome of the church of the Ognissanti

Church of Ognissanti, Florence

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 in Florence. He also painted five lunettes showing scenes from the Life of St Francis in the cloister of the Ognissanti. In 1619-1620 he directed the façade decoration of Palazzo dell'Antella

Palazzo dell'Antella

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 in Piazza Santa Croce

Piazza Santa Croce

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 of Florence.

His masterpiece is said to be frescoes in the chapel of the Palazzo Rospigliosi-Pallavicini in Pistoia

Pistoia

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. While escaping Florence during the plague, he painted some frescoes in the lunettes in the Santuario della Madonna della Fontenuova in Monsummano Terme

Monsummano Terme

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. On the left internal wall of the chorus of the church of San Bartolomeo in Cutigliano

Cutigliano

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, is a canvas of Mannozzi's the Circumcision (1620).

He died in 1636 and was buried in the church of San Pier Gattolino in Florence.