Giovanni Do
Illustration — The Painter's Studio, Private collection Giovanni Do (before 1617 –?1656) was a Spanish painter, active in Naples. He was born in the town of Xàtiva, near Valencia in Spain. His only masterpiece, and firm attribution, is his gloom-stricken tenebrist ‘'Adoration of shepherds'’ for the Church of Pietà dei Turchini in Naples.
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Giovanni Do
Giovanni Domenico Cerrini · Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork wga QS:P11807,"d/do/studio" · Public domain
- Died
- 1656 · Naples.
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- Crown of Aragon
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- painter
- Known for
- Madonna and Child
- Languages
- Spanish
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Illustration — The Painter's Studio, Private collection Giovanni Do (before 1617 –?1656) was a Spanish painter, active in Naples. He was born in the town of Xàtiva, near Valencia in Spain. His only masterpiece, and firm attribution, is his gloom-stricken tenebrist ‘'Adoration of shepherds'’ for the Church of Pietà dei Turchini in Naples.
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The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid owns a beautiful Adoration of the Shepherds proved to be a versión of an unpublished original by Ribera, of similar measures, was discovered that in 2012 appeared on the Art market.
The recorded working language is Spanish. Places of work recorded in the authority are Naples. Works named in the authority record are Madonna and Child. Work by Giovanni Do is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Reading Public Museum, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
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1601
Giovanni Do was born in 1601.
1656
Giovanni Do died on 19 October 1656.
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