Giovanni Martino Spanzotti

Place: Casale Monferrato

Biography:

Giovanni Martino Spanzotti (c. 1455 – c. 1528) was an Italian painter active in Piedmont, Lombardy and northern Italy. He was born in Casale Monferrato and died in Chivasso. Little is known of his life, but he was born into a family of painters from Varese and likely apprenticed with his father, Pietro. He painted between 1480 and 1498 in the Piedmont, as well as in Casale Monferrato and Vercelli. Works from this period include the Triptych in the Galleria Sabauda (his sole signed work) and the Adoration with Child in Rivarolo Canavese. Around 1485-1490 he executed a cycle of frescoes of the Life of Christ in the church of San Bernardino in Ivrea. His pupils included il Sodoma and Defendente Ferrari.