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Giovan Battista Viola Paintings

Italian, 1576-1622

Giovanni Battista Viola was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome. Viola was born in Bologna and went to Rome in about 1600. He established himself as a specialist landscape painter, executing frescoes and easel paintings with small figures. Viola was closely associated with Francesco Albani (1578–1660) who married his daughter in 1613. He worked with Domenichino and Albani at Bassano di Sutri in 1610 and collaborated in the execution of the frescoes by Domenichino in the Stanza di Apollo at the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati. Viola was well respected for his landscape canvases, which were documented among the works in the collections of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, Giustiniani, Cardinal Mazarin and the Pamphilj. Louis XIV of France collected at least landscapes, now in the Louvre. He was a teacher of Bartolommeo Lotto and Pietro Paolo Bonzi (il Gobbo dalle Frutta) and would have been influential for Claude Lorraine. The biography of Amorini recounts that Viola died mortified after offending Cardinal Ludovisi.

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Artist: Giovan Battista Viola
Important 17' Century Mythological Painting Diana and Actaeon Oil on Canvas
By Giovanni Battista Viola
Located in Rome, IT
Fascinating mythological story of Diana and Actaeon can be found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Very important provenance from a royal collection. Fabulous finely carved gilt wood coeval frame . Giovanni Battista Viola...
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17th Century Baroque Giovan Battista Viola Paintings

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Oil

Important 17' Century Mythological Painting Diana and Actaeon Oil on Canvas
By Giovanni Battista Viola
Located in Rome, IT
Fascinating mythological story of Diana and Actaeon can be found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Very important provenance from a royal collection. Fabulous finely carved gilt wood coeval...
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17th Century Baroque Giovan Battista Viola Paintings

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Oil

Two Scenes of Diana and Actaeon (a pair)
By Giovanni Battista Viola
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, until 1996 Private Collection, USA Giovanni Battista Viola was born in Bologna a...
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17th Century Baroque Giovan Battista Viola Paintings

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Copper

Important 17' Century Mythological Painting Diana and Actaeon Oil on Canvas
By Giovanni Battista Viola
Located in Rome, IT
Fascinating mythological story of Diana and Actaeon can be found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Very important provenance from a royal collection. Fabulous finely carved gilt wood coeval frame . Giovanni Battista Viola...
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17th Century Baroque Giovan Battista Viola Paintings

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Oil

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