Giovanni de Mio

Giovanni de Mio or Demio, also called il Fratino or Fratina or l'Indemio, (after 1510 in Schio – c. 1570) was an Italian painter and mosaicist of the Renaissance.

Biography

He was said to have been a pupil of Giovanni Battista Maganza in Vicenza.[1] He is documented to have been active in 1537 (Venice), in 1538–1539 (Pisa with Vincenzo Bianchini (painter)[2]), in 1544-1548 (at the Sauli Chapel in Santa Maria delle Grazie. He also painted frescoes in Villa Thiene in Quinto Vicentino,[3] and in a church in Torrebelvicino. In 1556 he painted some canvases for the Biblioteca Marciana.[4]

References
  1. Biografia degli artisti, Volume one, Venice, Francesco de Boni, 1840, page 657.
  2. Notizie di artisti tratte dai documenti pisani By Leopoldo Tanfani, page 490.
  3. Palladio Museum, frescoes at Villa Thiene.
  4. Treccani Encyclopedia .


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