Giovanni Bizzelli

The Deposition of Christ, pieve di Sant'Ippolito, Vernio.

Giovanni Bizzelli (1556 – around 1 August 1607 or 1612) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist period. He was a pupil of Alessandro Allori. He afterwards went to Rome. On his return to Florence he helped Antonio Tempesta in the decoration of the vaults of the Uffizi Corridor.

Works

• Pietà (1579, Pieve di San'Ippolito)
• Annunciation (1584, Uffizi, Florencia)
• St Macario enthroned with St Jerome and St Francis (1585-1590), Sant'Angelo a Lecore church, Signa
• Joanna of Austria with her son Philip de Medici (1586, Uffizi)
• Adoration of the Shepherds (Colegio del Corpus Christi, Valencia)
• Penitent Magdalen (Museum of Fine Arts, Valencia)
• Pentecost (c. 1590), San Pietro a Grignano church, Grignano, neighborhood of Prato
• Coronation of Virgin by Trinity with Saints John the Baptist, John Evangelist, Romualdo e Benedetto (1600), San Giovanni Evangelista Monastery, Pratovecchio
• Martyr of Saint James the Great (1601) Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, Florence
• Baptism of St Augustine (1603), Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Prato
• Frescoes at Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi church, Borgo Pinti, Florence

References

• 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. 132.