Giovanni Cinqui

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Giovanni Cinqui
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Born9 April 1667  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Died29 December 1743  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg (aged 76)

Giovanni Cinqui or Giovanni del Cinque (Scarperia, 1667 -1743) was an Italian painter. [1]

Biography

He trained in Florence under Pietro Dandini, He worked in the court of Cosimo III. He painted in the Villa Medicea dell'Ambrogiana, the Palazzo di Gino Capponi in Florence, the Oratory of the Villa Medicea di Lilliano, and for the church of Santa Rosa at Viterbo. [2] [3]

References

  1. Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli (ed.). Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 535.
  2. Cited in Italian wikipedia entry: Gaspero Righini Mugello e Val di Sieve, note e memorie storico-artistico-letterarie, Firenze, Tipografia Pierazzi, 10 October 1956.
  3. Encyclopedia Treccani entry.