Giovanni Anastasi

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Painting of Saint James by Anastasi

Giovani Anastasi (Senigallia, 20 March 1653 - Macerata, 13 March 1704) was an Italian painter, mainly of religious and history paintings.[1]

References

He painted portraits in Senigallia of Cardinal legates

quadratura painter Agostino Orsini of Bologna with whom he also worked in Pergola. Works by Anastasi are also found in Fossombrone, San Costanzo, and Urbino. He died while completing decoration of the ceiling of Palazzo de Vico in Macerata.[2]

Other sources cite a (1540–1587), painter, follower of Giulio Romano, active mainly in Mantua.[3]

References

  1. ^ Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli (ed.). Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 87.
  2. ^ Pamphlet for Exhibition Archived 2007-08-22 at the Wayback Machine 2007 on artist by Rosaria Leonardi Cenerelli.
  3. ^ Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 14.