Giovanni Montini (1613-1673)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Pupil of the Florentine painter Jacopo Vignali.
• Having trained with Vignali from the mid-1620s, Montini embarked on an independent career about ten years later.
• His name is registered in the Academy of Drawing in Florence on 27 October 1637.
• Montini’s style is extremely close to that of his master Vignali, though the influence of Felice Ficherelli and Simone Pignoni is also evident in his later works.
• Between 1647 and 1666 Montini’s name frequently appears in the payment registers of Cardinal Carlo de’ Medici, for whom he acted as advisor as well as painter.

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