Giovanni Giacomo Sementi

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Giovanni Giacomo Sementi / Semenza (born July 18, 1580 in Bologna , † 1638 ) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque .

He was a student of Denis Calvaert and Guido Reni . Giacinto Brandi was one of his students . Sementi painted Christ the Redeemer for the Church of St. Catherine in Bologna.

literature

  • James R. Hobbes: Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur . T&W Boone, 29 Bond Street, 1849, p. 280 ( Googlebooks ).
  • John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (eds.) Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings , Volume IV, Scribner and Sons (1887): p. 169.

Web links

  1. ↑ Lexicon entry on »Painting«. Pierer's Universal Lexikon, Volume 10. Altenburg 1860, pp. 777-794.
personal data
SURNAME Sementi, Giovanni Giacomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH 1638
Place of death Bologna