Giovanni Pietro Gnocchi

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

Biography[edit]

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.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Enciclopedia Trecanni entry by Rossella Faraglia, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 57 (2001).