Giovanni del Giglio was an Italian

Italy

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 painter

Painting

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 known as the Maestro di Ozieri.

Biography

The first possible mention of Giovanni del Giglio is in 1512, when the monk "Johannes de Liliis" arrived in Sassari

Sassari

Sassari is an Italian city. It is the second-largest city of Sardinia in terms of population with about 130,000 inhabitants, or about 300,000 including the greater metropolitan area...

 to restore the hospital of Santa Croce

Santa Croce

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. Despite the similarity of their names, it is difficult to be certain that Giovanni and the monk are the same person because: first, de Liliis was a monk, while del Giglio married; secondly, the monk is never mentioned as a painter. On August 7, 1522, del Giglio witnessed the will of Giovanni Fontana, father of the jurist Alessio Fontana, who ordered that his property should be used for the altarpiece for the Cathedral of Sassari.

Del Giglio was the attorney of Archbishop Salvatore Alepus

Salvatore Alepus

Salvatore Alessio Alepus was an Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop, who ruled the archdiocese of Sassari in the sixteenth century.-Biography:...

, the commissioner of Giglio's Ploaghe

Ploaghe

Ploaghe is a comune in the Province of Sassari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 160 km north of Cagliari and about 20 km southeast of Sassari...

 altarpiece

Altarpiece

An altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych for two,...

. From 1532 to 1543, he was part of the Brotherhood of the Obedient in city of Sassari. Around 1543, he married Andreuccia Olives, the sister of the jurist Girolamo Olives, and the widow of the tailor Forteleoni de Ginesi. From Olives previous marriage, he gained a stepdaughter, who was born in 1540. Del Giglio had no other children. This marriage allowed him to convince Girolamo Olives' confidant, the bishop of Alghero

Alghero

Alghero , is a town of about 44,000 inhabitants in Italy. It lies in the province of Sassari in northwestern Sardinia, next to the sea.-History:The area of today's Alghero has been settled since pre-historic times...

, Pedro Vaguer, to give him the commission for the altarpieces of Benetutti

Benetutti

Benetutti is a comune in the Province of Sassari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 190 km north of Cagliari and about 91 km southeast of Sassari....

 and Bortigali

Bortigali

Bortigali is a comune in the Province of Nuoro in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 120 km north of Cagliari and about 45 km west of Nuoro...

 between 1549 and 1551. These may have been completed by other painters of his school, possibly Pietro Giovanni Calvano, from Siena

Siena

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.

School

Other painters of his school were Antonio Campus, Giovanni Debasteriga, and Leonardo de Serra. The Ozieri altarpiece is attributed to his school.

Style

Girolama's style, which had a large influence on painting in Sardinia until the arrival of Baccio Gorini, shows the influence of Raphael

Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...

 and Michelangelo

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...

 as well as the early Tuscan style of Rosso Fiorentino

Rosso Fiorentino

Giovanni Battista di Jacopo , known as Rosso Fiorentino , or Il Rosso, was an Italian Mannerist painter, in oil and fresco, belonging to the Florentine school.-Biography:...

 and Pontormo

Pontormo

Jacopo Carucci , usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine school. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine...

. His use of color and techniques placed him among the leading Mannerists

Mannerism

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in Sardenia.