Giovanni Martinelli (1600 - 1659)

• Was an Italian, Baroque era painter.
• He was born in Montevarchi, Arezzo.
• Martinelli started his apprenticeship in the studio of Jacopo Ligozzi in Florence and stayed there until 1625.
• Fra Francesco Dell'Antella, commissioned him in 1622 a number of works (now lost) for the church of San Leonardo in Grosseto.
• Though there is no documented trace of the artist during the following ten years, he most likely sojourned in Rome, beginning a long and profitable period of study.

• In 1636, Martinelli enrolled the Accademia del Disegno in Florence. 

• By 1638, Martinelli completed a serie of frescoes for the Certosa del Galluzzo, near Florence. 

• The artist died in 1659. 

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