Giovanni Biliverti (1585–1644)

• Was an Italian painter who was active in Florence.
• Giovanni Bilivert was the son of Giacomo Giovanni Biliverti (born in Delft), a famous goldsmith who worked at the Medici court in Florence.

• He began his apprenticeship with the Sienese Alessandro Casolani. 

• After the death of his father in 1603, he worked in the studio of Lodovico Cigoli.

• He followed him to Rome from April 1604 to 1607 where their plans were accepted by Pope Clement VIII. 

• In 1609 Bilivert joined the Medici painters' guild, the Academy of Drawing in Florence and he was employed by Cosimo II from 1611 to 1621.

• He was also active in other Tuscan centers such as Pisa and Pistoia. 

• Undermined by a serious illness that appeared in 1636, he continued to work, supported by the success of his studio where Bartolomeo Salvestrini, Orazio Fidani, who was also his biographer, and Agostino Melissi were noticed.

• He becomes blind to his old age. 

• Cecco Bravo and Baccio del Bianco were among his pupils.

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