Giovanni Serodine (1600–1630),

• Was a Swiss-Italian painter of the early Baroque period.

• He was born to a family of stuccoists in Ascona in Canton Ticino.

• Serodine spent a while in Rome and there developed an idiosyncratic expression of Carravaggist style.

• Serodine have made few friends and patrons in Rome.

• In his short mature career, he produced a handful of intensely emotional tenebrist canvases now located in Louvre, National Gallery of Scotland, Convent of Valvisciolo in Sermoneta, San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, San Pietro in Montorio, Ascona, Lugano and Rancate.

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