Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti
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Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti was an Italian
Italy
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 painter. Also known as Giovanni Mansueti.

Known by a few paintings. Little is known of his biography. He was active in Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

 from 1485 to 1526. Pupil of Gentile Bellini
Gentile Bellini
Gentile Bellini was an Italian painter. From 1474 he was the official portrait artist for the Doges of Venice.- Biography :...

 and worked in the antique style in the Miracles of the Cross painted in 1494-ca. 1502 for the Scuola di san Giovanni Evangelista
Scuole Grandi of Venice
The Scuole Grandi were confraternity or sodality institutions in Venice, Italy. They were founded as early as the 13th century as charitable and religious organizations for the laity....

 and now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia. In style he resembles Cima da Conegliano
Cima da Conegliano
Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano was an Italian Renaissance painter.-Biography:Giovanni Battista Cima was born at Conegliano, now part of the province of Treviso, in 1459 or 1460...

 and Vittore Carpaccio
Vittore Carpaccio
Vittore Carpaccio was an Italian painter of the Venetian school, who studied under Gentile Bellini. He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend of Saint Ursula. His style was somewhat conservative, showing little influence from the Humanist trends that transformed Italian...

. One of his paintings resides in a church near Bagni di Luca, Italy.

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