Giovanni Antonio Scaramuccia (1580–1633) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Rome and Perugia.
Biography
He initially trained as a sculptor, and was enrolled as a member of the Collegio di Pietra e Legname (the guild of stonemasons and woodworkers) in 1614. He is described as a pupil of Cristoforo Roncalli in Rome. Among his pupils were his son, Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia, Giovanni Domenico Cerrini and Paolo Gismondi.
He painted a series of panels depicting subjects of the New Testament for the Oratory of San Francesco in Perugia. He painted a mannerist Virgin and St Augustine (1625) for the Oratory of St Augustine in Perugia.
References
- 1 artwork by or after Giovanni Antonio Scaramuccia, Art UK
- Key to Umbria short biography.
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