Alessandro Maganza [SEP] place of death
Alessandro Maganza
Alessandro Maganza (1556–1630) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style, born and active in Vicenza, as well as in Venice.
He likely trained with his father, Giovanni Battista Maganza, also a painter; as well as by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo. He is said to have spent the years 1572–76 in Venice. His first documented work, "Virgin and Child with Four Evangelists" (1580) was painted for the monastery built around the basilica and sanctuary of Monte Berico in Vicenza. Maganza also
first opera presented at the Palladio-designed Teatro Olimpico.
As a poet, he wrote satires in the Paduan dialect (and precisely in a now-dead form of it, called ), under the nickname Magagnò.
His son Alessandro Maganza was also a prominent local painter. Fontana cites Lanzi and Zanetti as Maganza's dates of birth and death as 1509 and 1589 Giovanni De Mio was one of his pupils.
Works.
Partial listing:
- "San Girolamo penitente" ("Saint Jerome Penitent