Giovanni Coli
Illustration — Coli and Gherardi, fresco ceiling with the Battle of Lepanto in the Palazzo Colonna, Rome, 1675–78 Giovanni Coli (1636–1691) was an Italian painter from Lucca, active in the Baroque style. He trained with Pietro Paolini in Lucca and then moved to Rome to work under Pietro da Cortona. He often worked alongside Filippo Gherardi.
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Giovanni Coli
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- Giovanni Coli was born on 1 January 1636. · Lucca.
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Illustration — Coli and Gherardi, fresco ceiling with the Battle of Lepanto in the Palazzo Colonna, Rome, 1675–78 Giovanni Coli (1636–1691) was an Italian painter from Lucca, active in the Baroque style. He trained with Pietro Paolini in Lucca and then moved to Rome to work under Pietro da Cortona. He often worked alongside Filippo Gherardi.
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In Venice, Coli and Gherardi also completed frescoes (1670–72) of the dome of the church of San Nicolò da Tolentino with a fresco of the Glory of San Nicolò, and in the massive decoration of the church of San Pantalon. In Venice, Coli and Gherardi frescoed the Library of San Giorgio Maggiore.
Training under Pietro Paolini is recorded. Work by Giovanni Coli is recorded in the collections of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
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Filippo Gherardi / Giovanni Coli · Self-photographed, Szilas in the National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta
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1636
Giovanni Coli was born on 1 January 1636.
1681
Giovanni Coli died on 24 February 1681.
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Giovanni Coli was born in Lucca.
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- D. Ton, Giovanni Coli. Filippo Gherardi, in "Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell'Arte", 31, 2007 (2009), pp. 1–174.
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