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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;^[1] 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 frescoed the inner cupola of Palladio's famous Villa Rotonda located near Vicenza, with allegorical figures in colour, again recalling the Paolo Veronese; he also executed large ceiling canvases in tempera for the South and West rooms. His style is described as derivative of Palma il Giovane. He had three sons who became painters: Giovanni Battista the younger, Marcantonio, and Girolamo.

Works edit

Vicenza edit

Madonna and Child with four Evangelists, 1580, Santuario della Madonna di Monte Berico
Santi Vincenzo e Marco che presentano la città di Vicenza alla Vergine, 1581, Vicenza Cathedral
Adorazione della Vergine con gli Angeli , 1581 Vicenza Cathedral
Adoration of the Magi, 1582, Thiene, private collection of Porto Colleoni
St Valentine heals the sick 1584-1585, Basilica dei Santi Felice e Fortunato
Pietà e santi, 1585, Vicenza, Santa Croce church
Sei tele per la cappella del Santissimo Sacramento, 1587-1589, Vicenza Cathedral:
- Ultima Cena
- Orazione nell'orto
- Flagellazione
- L'imperatore concede i privilegi ai notai, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
- Il doge conferma i privilegi ai notai, Milano, Pinacoteca di Brera
Prayer in the Garden and Flagellation, late 1500s, Palazzo Chiericati
Battesimo di Cristo, 1591, Vicenza, Santuario della Madonna di Monte Berico
San Gerolamo Emiliani con alcuni bimbi di fronte a Cristo e alla Madonna, 1592, Vicenza, Chiesa della Misericordia
Cristo dona le corone ai santi Pietro e Paolo, 1596, San Pietro
Martyrdom of Saint Justine, 1596, San Pietro
San Benedetto accoglie san Mauro, 1596, Vicenza, San Pietro church
St Bonaventure receives eucharist from an Angel, 1598, Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza
Pietà, 1600, San Pietro
Cristo morto e donatori, 1600, Schio, Chiesa di San Francesco
Trinità adorata dai santi Alessandro e Gennaro vescovo, 1600 circa, San Vito di Leguzzano, parish church
Tredici teleri per il soffitto della Chiesa di San Domenico, 1603-1604, Vicenza, San Domenico church
Madonna of the Rosary), (1604 - 1608), Barbarano Vicentino, parish church
Nativity, 1605, Filippini
Sei piccoli riquadri per l'antico tabernacolo della cappella del Sacramento della Cattedrale, 1606, Vicenza, Curia vescovile:
- Risen Christ
- Faith, Hope, Temperance, and Charity)
- Padre Eterno
Allegory of Religion and the Virtue, date uncertain, Villa Almerico Capra
San Vincenzo (Saint Vincent), 1613, Thiene, San Vincenzo church
Triumph of Sebastian Venier's, Victorious Over the Turks), 1619, Santa Corona
Martyrdom of Saint Andrew), San Pietro
Martirio dei santi Leonzio e Carpoforo (Martyr of Saints Leontius and Carpophore), Vicenza Cathedral

Padua edit

Trasfigurazione, Padova, San Benedetto Vecchio
Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi), Padova, San Gaetano Church
Disputa tra i dottori, Padova, San Gaetano church
Pietà, Padova, San Gaetano church
Santa Caterina (Saint Catherine), Padova, San Gaetano church
Gesù salva Pietro e gli Apostoli, attribuita, Padova, San Gaetano church

Other edit

Portrait of Maddalena Campiglia, Musei civici di Vicenza

References edit

^ Tempesti, Anna (1991). The Robert Lehman Collection Volume 5: Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 329. ISBN 978-0-691-04093-6.

Grove Dictionary of Art
Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500–1600. Penguin Books Ltd. p. 565.

External links edit

[1] Tempesti, Anna (1991). The Robert Lehman Collection Volume 5: Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 329. ISBN 978-0-691-04093-6.

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