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Last Name Garzoni

Given Name Giovanna °

alt. Names G. G. ; Giovana Garzonius ;

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Year born 1600 in Ascoli Piceno

Year died 1670

Place of death Florence

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education in painting by an otherwise unknown painter from her home town of Ascoli Piceno

Country of Activity Italy

Worked for grand duke Ferdinando II de Medici (1610-1670) in Florence ; Cassiano dal Pozzo ; Carlo Emanuele II, Duke of Savoy ; the Medici family ; Anna Colonna, the wife of Taddeo Barberini ;

Patronage Cardinals Carlo (1xxx-1666) ; Giovan Carlo (1611-62) ; Leopold (1617-1675) ; Grand duchesse Vittoria della Rovere (1622-1695) ;

Collaborators

Techniques botanical and natural watercolour, pastel, and oil painting ; still life bordering on non-scientific flower-painting ;

Sample(s) www.google.de/search?q=Giovanna+Garzoni

Archival sources

Published sources Lucia T. Tomasi & G. A. Hirschauer: Flowering of Florence. Botanical Art for the Medici (Washington 2002: 7 & 75-89) ; Tomasi 2001: 185f. ;

other In 1666, Garzoni bequeathed her entire estate to the Roman painters' guild the Accademia di San Luca, on the condition that they build her tomb in their church of Santi Luca e Martina.

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