- Giovanni Biliverti
Giovanni Bilivert (
25 August ,1585 -16 July ,1644 ) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerism and early-Baroque period, active mainly in his adoptive city ofFlorence , as well asRome . His father had been born in was born atMaastricht .Also know as "Giovanni Biliverti". He was the son of the Flemish painter in Florence,Jacques Bilivert . He first apprenticed withAlessandro Casolani inSiena . After his father’s death in 1603, Giovanni worked in the studio ofLodovico Cigoli , following him in April 1604 till 1607 to Rome. There he worked in projects approved byPope Clement VIII .In 1609 Bilivert joined the Medici-sponsored
guild of artists , the "Accademia del Disegno" in Florence. Bilivert was employed by Cosimo II de' Medici from 1611 until 1621, as a designer for works inpietra dura . His "Grateful Tobias" and "Chastity of Joseph" (c. 1618) are found in the Galleria Palatina of thePalazzo Pitti . Late in life, he became blind [Ticozzi p 101.] Among his pupils wereCecco Bravo ,Agostino Melissi ,Baccio del Bianco , andOrazio Fidani . He painted a "Hagar in the Desert" once in the Hermitage and a "Christ and the Samaritan Woman" once in the Belvedere inVienna .References
*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume I: A-K)| editor = Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 128| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1| authorlink=
*cite book | first= Stefano| last= Ticozzi| year=1830| title= "Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d’ogni etá e d’ogni nazione"' (Volume 1)| editor = | pages= page 101 | publisher=Gaetano Schiepatti; Digitized by Googlebooks, Jan 24, 2007 | id= | url= http://books.google.com/books?id=0ownAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=Stefano+Ticozzi+Dizionario | authorlink=
* [http://www.artnet.com/library/00/0088/T008853.asp| Artnet biography] .
* [http://pintura.aut.org/BU04?Autnum=12.130| Short biography] .
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