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Last Name Grassi

Given Name Giovannino de

alt. Names G. d. G. ;

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Year born 1340 in Milano / Mailand, Italy

Year died 1398 or 1400

Place of death

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Education worked as architect, draughtsman, and miniature painter

Country of Activity Italy

Worked for Taccuino di disegni‏ (a codex w. naturalistic plant drawings), 50 folios for the offices of Gian Galeazzo Visconti; Historia Plantarum (Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome)

Patronage Accademia Carrara de Bergamo ;

Collaborators

Techniques architectural, topographic, botanical, zoological, and technical drawing ;hand-colouring ; miniature painting ;

Sample(s) http://lj.rossia.org/users/marinni/299006.html ;

Archival sources Bibliot.Angelo Mai di Bergamo; Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome; Bibl.Naz.di Firenze; cf. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovannino_de%27_Grassi for links ;

Published sources Jane Turner in: The Dictionary of Art. 13 (1996): 318; Antonio Cadei: Studi di Miniatura lombarda. G.de G., Belbello da Pavia, 1984; Marco Rossi: G.de G., 1995; Miriam Bondioli: Miniature Lombarde, Florence 1965; Giulia Bologna: Handschriften und Minaturen. Das Buch vor Gutenberg, Munich 2000: 128-9;

other cf. also http://www.meraviglienascoste.it/2012/08/24/la-natura-animali-e-piante-nelle-miniature-di-giovannino-de-grassi/pavone-giovannino/

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