Giovanni Soncini

The Virgin Mary with the Baby Jesus, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, and Saint Prosper.

Giovanni Soncini was a painter from Reggio Emilia, Italy, who was active in Parma during the Renaissance.^[1] It is likely that he was a pupil of Bernardino Zacchetti from Reggio.^[1] Soncini was the godfather of Correggio's second daughter.^[1]

According to Mary Vaccaro, writing in the journal Renaissance Studies, Soncini was a "minor painter" who has been "largely, and perhaps deservedly, forgotten in the history of art".^[1] There is only one known signed picture by Soncini.^[1]

References

1. Vaccaro, Mary. "Artists as godfathers: Parmigianino and Correggio in the baptismal registers of Parma." Renaissance Studies 21 (3), 366–376.