Giovanni Canti (painter)
Giovanni Canti (ca. 1650–1716) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. Born in Parma. Active in early 18th century. Among his pupils were Giuseppe Bazzani and Francesco Maria Raineri. He resided chiefly at Mantua, where he painted mainly battle-pieces and landscapes.
He painted an altarpiece depicting Madonna and Child and Saints for the church of Santa Maria della Carità in Mantua.
References
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 227.
- Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. London: T&W Boone. p. 4477.
Categories:
- People from the Province of Parma
- 17th-century Italian painters
- 18th-century Italian painters
- Painters from Mantua
- Painters from Parma
- Italian Baroque painters
- Italian battle painters
- 1650s births
- 1716 deaths
- 18th-century Italian male painters
- 17th-century Italian male painters
- Italian painter, 1650s birth stubs