Giovanni Battista Maganza
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Giovanni Battista Maganza (c. 1513 – 1586) was a late Renaissance
Italian
painter, from Vicenza
, mainly producing religious altarpieces for local churches. He was also a poet and a friend of Andrea Palladio
. His son Alessandro Maganza
was also a prominent local painter.
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
Italian
Italy
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painter, from Vicenza
Vicenza
Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...
, mainly producing religious altarpieces for local churches. He was also a poet and a friend of Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio was an architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered the most influential individual in the history of Western architecture...
. His son Alessandro Maganza
Alessandro Maganza
Alessandro Maganza was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style, born and active in Vicenza, as well as in Venice.He likely trained with his father, Giovanni Battista Maganza, also a painter; as well as by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo. He is said to have spent the years 1572–1576 in Venice...
was also a prominent local painter.