Giovanni Moneri
Giovanni Moneri (May 19, 1637 December 15, 1714) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.[1]
Biography
He was born in Visone, near Acqui, in the Piedmont. He was sent by his parents to Rome, to study under Giovanni Francesco Romanelli. He returned in 1657 to paint an Assumption of the Virgin for the Cathedral of Acqui. In a chapel, he painted a scene of Paradise. He also painted scenes of the Life of St Francis in the cloister of church of St Francis. He painted an Annuciation for the church in Terme Reali. He painted the main altarpiece Presentation of Mary at the Temple for the church of the Capuchins in Acqui. A Last Supper is painted in the refectory of the Osservanti in Strevi. He also painted in the cloister of San Bernardino in Moncalvo.
His sons Giovanni Battista and Francesco were also a painter as well as a priest. The former painted a San Rocco for a church in Acqui. The latter traveled to Rome to study, but died young.[2]
References
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons.
- ↑ Entry for Giovanni Moneri is found in Preface for an edition of Giorgio Vasari, Vite de’ più eccellenti pittori scultori e architetti, rev. by Guglielmo della Valle, 11 vols (Siena: Pazzani Carli, 1791–94) XI (1794), p. 35.
- ↑ Guglielmo della Valle, page 35.
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