Giovanni Antonio Laveglia Explained

Giovanni Antonio Laveglia/LaVeglia (1653 – after 1710) was an Italian painter of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, active in the Piedmont.

Biography

He was born in Carmagnola to father painter, Pietro Laveglia, (1625-1675) who had emigrated to Asti from Paris. A canvas at the Civic Gallery of the Palazzo Mazzetti, depicting Christ and the Apostles on the shores of the Borbore (circa 1671) includes a distant view of the town of Asti.[1]

In Bartoli's Notizia about artworks, he takes notice of a Laveglia d'Asti, who was a painter of quadratura in the church of San Martino of Astia.[2]

In 1677, Giovanni Antonio married Lucrezia Maria Fariano in Asti.[3] In 1708, Giovanni Carlo Aliberti married Giovanni Antonio's daughter.[4]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.palazzomazzetti.it/?page_id=145 Palazzo Mazzetti
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=6hFYAAAAcAAJ Notizia delle Pitture, Sculture, ed Architetture d'Italia
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=ItRGAQAAIAAJ Iconografia sacra a Manduria: repertorio delle opere pittoriche
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=fro-AAAAcAAJ Notizie degli intagliatori con osservazioni critiche