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Giovanni Battista Maganza

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Other names
  
Magagno (pseudonym)

Died
  
August 25, 1586

Role
  
Poet

Name
  
Giovanni Maganza

Occupation
  
artist, poet


Giovanni Battista Maganza

Born
  
c. 1513
Calaone near Vicenza

Giovanni Battista Maganza (c. 1513–August 25, 1586) was a late Renaissance Italian painter and poet, from Vicenza in the area of Calaone, mainly producing religious altarpieces for local churches.

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Biography

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Maganza was also a poet and a friend of Andrea Palladio. He visited Rome between 1546 and 1547 and also met Gian Giorgio Trissino and the poet Marco Thiene, he was member of the Accademia Olimpica (Olympic Academy) in Venice where he designed costumes for the play Oedipus Rex, the first opera presented at the Palladio-designed Teatro Olimpico.

He made poets, composed satire in the Pavan dialect under the pseudonym Magagnò.

His son Alessandro Maganza was also a prominent local painter. Fontana cites Lanzi and Zanetti as Maganza's dates of birth and death as 1509 and 1589 Giovanni De Mio was one of his pupils.

Works

Partial listing:

  • San Girolamo penitente (Saint Jerome Penitent) (1570), San Marco in San Girolamo church, Vicenza
  • Pala del Rosario (1583), Montebello Vicentino church.
  • La conversione di S.Paolo (Conversion of Saint Paul) (16th century), at the large altar of the Novale di Valdagno church, Vicenza.
  • Frescoes in Villa Repeta and Campigila dei Berici.
  • References

    Giovanni Battista Maganza Wikipedia


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