Giovanni Battista Cremonini

The Agony in the Garden, circa 1595

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. ^[1] One of his pupils was Odoardo Fialetti.

Among his works in Bologna are the following: ^[2]

• 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

1. Lanzi p. 53
2. 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.

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 51.
• Grove Art Encyclopedia on Artnet biography on Fialetti
• Lanzi, Luigi (1847). History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Vol. III. Translated by Thomas Roscoe. London: Henry G. Bohn. p. 53.