Giovanni Niccolo
Giovanni Niccolò (also Giovanni Nicolao; Nola, 1560 – Macau, 16 March 1626) was a Jesuit Italian painter who in 1583 was sent to found a seminary of painting, named the Seminary of Painters, in Japan. This painter's name was Giovanni Colla. He has become known as Giovanni Niccolò, but this is an error.
Giovanni Niccolo
- Born
- 1560 · Nola.
- Died
- 1626 · Macau.
- Occupation
- painter · missionary
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Giovanni Niccolò (also Giovanni Nicolao; Nola, 1560 – Macau, 16 March 1626) was a Jesuit Italian painter who in 1583 was sent to found a seminary of painting, named the Seminary of Painters, in Japan. This painter's name was Giovanni Colla. He has become known as Giovanni Niccolò, but this is an error.
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Born at Nola in 1560, died in Macau in 1626.
Work by Giovanni Niccolo is recorded in the collections of Peabody Essex Museum.
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- 1.Onn, Clement, "Christianity in Japan 1549-1639" in Chong, Alan, ed. Christianity in Asia: Sacred Art and Visual Splendour. Singapore: Dominie Press, 2016. , p. 174
- 2.Lach, Donald F., and Edwin J. Van Kley: Asia in the Making of Europe, vol. II, book I; The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993, p.67
- 3.Bailey, Gauvin A. “Creating a global artistic language in late renaissance Rome: artists in the service of the overseas missions, 1542-1621”, p.21
- 4.Onn, p. 174
- 5.Onn, p. 177
- 6.Carvel, Alexandra. "Nagasaki: an [sic] European artistic city in early modern Japan" in Bulletin of Portuguese-Japanese Studies, no. 2 (June 2001), p. 31.
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