Giovanni Agostino Cassana

Pigeons feeding

Abate, or Giovanni Agostino Cassana (c.1658 – 6 May 1720) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was a son of Giovanni Francesco Cassana and an elder brother of Niccolò and Giovanni Battista.^[1] He was born at Venice, and was initially instructed by his father.^[1] In 1670 he worked at the court of Ferdinando de' Medici in Florence and travelled regularly between the two cities, but spent at least the years 1718-1720 in Genoa, where he later died.^[1]

He painted portraits with some success, but preferred painting animals in the style of Antonio Maria Vasallo, Benedetto Castiglione, and Joannes Fyt, a style which he learned from Jacques van de Kerckhove in Venice.^[2] Paintings of still life subjects are found in the collections at Florence, Venice, and Genoa.

See also

• Cassana (family)

References

1. Giovanni Agostino Cassana in the RKD
2. Jacques van de Kerckhove in the RKD

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 247.
• Giovanni Agostino Cassana on Artnet