Giovannello da Itala
Giovannello da Itala (active 1490 - around 1531 in Messina ) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance in Sicily .
Life
The painter Giovannello, who comes from Itala near Messina , is stylistically in the footsteps of Antonello da Messina and was at times an employee of Antonello de Saliba . In 1504 he worked with Salvo d'Antonio for the brotherhood of Santa Maria di Gesù in Condrò on a banner with an "Annunciation" and the "Flagellation of Christ".
Works
- Museo Regionale di Messina : panel paintings “Madonna, Child and Saint” (around 1490), and “Vita of Saint Clare” (both from the monastery of Santa Maria di Basicò) and “Saint Thomas of Canterbury” (1506, from the Church of San Tommaso in Messina)
literature
- Gioacchino Di Marzo : Antonello da Messina e dei suoi congiunti. Studi e documenti (= Documenti per servire alla storia di Sicilia. Series 4, Volume 9). “Boccone del povero”, Palermo 1903, p. 93.
- Giorgio Vigni, Giovanni Carandente (ed.): Antonello da Messina e la pittura del '400 in Sicilia . Alfieri, Venice 1953 (catalog for the exhibition in the Palazzo Comunale di Messina, 1953).
- Bernardette Ferlazzo: Giovannello dʼItala . (PDF; 85 kB) 2004.
Web links
Commons : Giovannello da Itala - collection of images
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giovannello da Itala |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Itala |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th Century |
| Place of death | Messina |