Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1403-1483,major Italian painter of the Sienese school. Typical of the Sienese painters of his era, he paid scant attention to the artistic innovations made in nearby Florence, but often depended on the style established by the Sienese masters of the 14th cent. Fortunately, Giovanni di Paolo was endowed with great imagination. His first dated work (1426) was the Pecci altarpiece (major panels in Siena; predella panels in the Walters Art Gall., Baltimore). He produced a tremendous number of works during his long career. Many paintings have remained in Siena, but there are probably more examples of his art in the United States. The Metropolitan Museum has several of his paintings; among them is a delightful scene of Paradise; in the Philip Lehman collection is the exquisite Creation of the World. The Madonna and Child in a Landscape (Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston) exemplifies his inclination toward pure fantasy and disregard for the laws of perspective. Giovanni di Paolo is best represented by six highly expressive scenes from the life of St. John the Baptist (Art Inst., Chicago).   Related Paintings of Giovanni di Paolo :. | simmande lom | fiskere i faerd med at saette en rorsbad i vandet | Bathers at Asnieres (mk09) | The Martyrdom of st john the evangelist at the porta Latina | Portrait of Giovanni Mateo Ghiberti,mid-sixteenth century |
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Johannes Natus
painted Peasants smoking and making music in an inn in 1660
Alexei Venetsianov
1780 - 1847
Robert Gabriel Gence
Paris vers 1670- Bayonne 1728