Giovanni Pietro Gnocchi Explained

Giovanni Pietro Gnocchi was an Italian painter, active during the late 16th century in Lombardy in a late-Renaissance or Mannerist styles.

Biography

He was born in Milan, and a pupil of Aurelio Luini.[1] His altarpiece depicting the Madonna and child with Saints Margherita d'Antiochia, Sant'Ambrogio (?), San Domenico, Santa Liberata e Santa Faustina is in the Museo Civici of Como. He was active in Como in 1577–1579.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-pietro-gnocchi_(Dizionario_Biografico)/ Enciclopedia Trecanni