Giovanni Martino Spanzotti
Giovanni Martino Spanzotti , also Gian Martino Spanzotti, (* around 1456 in Casale Monferrato ; around 1528 in Chivasso near Turin ) was an Italian painter.
It is documented between 1480 and 1526. His father Pietro was a painter (the family came from Varese ) and he probably learned from this at first. His brother Francesco was also a painter.
His students included Il Sodoma and Defendente Ferrari . He was connected to the Lombard style before Leonardo da Vinci and also Nordic influences, which he probably got to know in Milan. In his first works (Madonna and Child, Museo Civico Turin) there are influences from Francesco del Cossa , from whom he may have learned. However, he probably received a large part of his training in Milan (in a document from 1480 in Casale he is referred to as a Milanese painter). Other influences were Vincenzo Foppa and Zanetto Bugatto .
In a document from 1481 he is named Magister, so that he must have had a certain reputation at that time. From 1498 to 1502 he was in Casale, then in Chivasso and from 1513 in Turin at the court of the Dukes of Savoy.
One of his main works are the frescoes with motifs from the life of Christ in the San Bernardino in Ivrea .
gallery
Adoration of the Child, fresco, around 1480, Rivarolo Canalese
Crucifixion, fresco, 1486–1491, San Bernardino, Ivrea
Madonna and Child, Museo Civico, Turin
Saint Bernard of Siena , fresco, San Bernardino, Ivrea
Abrogation of Adam and Eve from Paradise, fresco, San Bernardino, Ivrea
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spanzotti, Giovanni Martino |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spanzotti, Gian Martino |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1456 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Casale Monferrato |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1528 |
| Place of death | Chivasso |