Giovanni Battista Calandra (1586 - c. 1644) was an Italian mosaic artist in the Vatican.
He was born at Vercelli in 1586. In the pontificate of Urban VIII, it was found that the dampness of St. Peter's materially affected canvases, and henceforth it was determined to remove the principal pictures, and to replace them with copies in mosaic, of which the first was executed by Calandra, after the St. Michael of Cesare D'Arpino. With this were The Four Doctors of the Church, St. Peter, St. Paul, and others in the cupolas, after the cartoons of D'Arpino, Romanelli, Lanfranco, Sacchi, and Pellegrini. He also executed a Madonna after Raphael for the Christina, Queen of Sweden.
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Raffaelle Castellini (1791–1874) was an Italian artist, who was the director of the Mosaic School at the Vatican, and executed the splendid mosaics of The Sibyl of Cumae after Domenichino and St. John the Baptist after Guercino for the Basilica of St. Peter's. He died at Rome in 1864. Page 249
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John D. Calandra was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
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