Giovanni Battista Cremonini
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Giovanni Battista Cremonini (c. 1550 - 1610) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
Biography
Born in Cento, but mostly active in Bologna. His father Matteo Cremonini was also a painter. Giambattista was active in fresco decoration of houses, he was aided by his cousin, Bartolommeo Ramenghi.Lanzi p. 53 One of his pupils was Odoardo Fialetti.
Among his works in Bologna are the following:[https://books.google.com/books?id=F-EPAAAAQAAJ Catalogo istorico de' pittori e scultori ferraresi e delle opere loro.], Volume 1; author Cesare Cittadella; published by Francesco Pomatelli in Ferrara, 1782, Page 157-160.
- Frescoes in the Casa Lucchini
- St Jerome and St Lawrence for Chapel of the Annunciation of the church of San Domenico
- Above entrance to Church of San Francesco in Bologna
- Decorations in Cantone of the Colegio di Spagna
- Crucifix for church of the Scalzi
- History of the building of the church in first chapel of the church of Santa Maria del Monte
- Decorations lateral to Francesco Francia's altarpiece of St Roch in Chiesa della Morte
- Infirmary of San Michele in Bosco
References
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- {{cite book | first= Maria|last= Farquhar| year=1855| title= Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters| editor = Ralph Nicholson Wornum | page = 51| publisher= Woodfall & Kinder |location=London | url= https://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:Wornum+intitle:principal+intitle:painters }}
- [http://www.artnet.com/library/02/0281/T028142.asp Grove Art Encyclopedia on Artnet biography on Fialetti]
- {{cite book| first=Luigi| last=Lanzi| author-link=Luigi Lanzi| year=1847| title= History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century|volume=III|translator=Thomas Roscoe | page= 53| publisher= Henry G. Bohn|location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k0sGAAAAQAAJ}}
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Category:16th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
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