Giovanni de Mio explained

Giovanni de Mio or Demio, also called il Fratino or Fratina or l'Indemio, (after 1510 in Schio  - c. 1570) was an Italian painter and mosaicist of the Renaissance.

Biography

He was said to have been a pupil of Giovanni Battista Maganza in Vicenza.[1] He is documented to have been active in 1537 (Venice), in 1538–1539 (Pisa with Vincenzo Bianchini (painter)[2]), in 1544-1548 (at the Sauli Chapel in Santa Maria delle Grazie. He also painted frescoes in Villa Thiene in Quinto Vicentino,[3] and in a church in Torrebelvicino. In 1556 he painted some canvases for the Biblioteca Marciana.[4]

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=Z74TAAAAQAAJ Biografia degli artisti
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Io5ZAAAAYAAJ Notizie di artisti tratte dai documenti pisani
  3. http://mediateca.palladiomuseum.org/palladio/persona.php?id=238 Palladio Museum
  4. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/demio-giovanni-detto-fratino/ Treccani Encyclopedia