Giovanni Boccati (1420–1487)

• Also known as Giovanni di Pier Matteo Boccati was an Italian painter.
• Boccati was born in Camerino, in the region of Marche.

• He lived and worked in Camerino, Padua, Perugia, and Urbino.

• His first documented work is the Madonna del Pergolato (1447); that painting, Madonna dell’Orchestra, and a Pietà (1479) are on display in the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria in Perugia.

• By 1445 he had become a citizen of Perugia. 

• He painted frescoes in the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, and an altarpiece (1473) in Orvieto.

• He painted a polyptych (1468) for the main altar of the church of Sant'Eustachio a Belforte del Chienti in the province of Macerata, Marche.

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