Giovanni Martino Spanzotti

Giovanni Martino Spanzotti, Gian Martino Spanzotti, (c. 1456 in Casale Monferrato, 1528 in Chivasso in Turin ) was an Italian painter.

He is documentary evidence 1480-1526. His father was a painter Pietro ( the family came from Varese) and he probably learned initially in this. His brother Francesco was also a painter.

His students included Il Sodoma and Defendente Ferrari. He was attached to the Lombard style before Leonardo da Vinci and also Nordic influences that he probably met in Milan. In his early works (Madonna with Child, Museo Civico of Turin ) is influences by Francesco del Cossa, where he learned may show. But a big part of his training he learned probably in Milan ( in a document of 1480 in Casale he is referred to as Milanese painter ). Further influences were Vincenzo Foppa and Zanetto Bugatto.

In a document of 1481 he is called Master, so that he must have then already had a certain reputation. 1498-1502 he is in Casale, then in Chivasso and from 1513 in Turin at the court of the Dukes of Savoy.

One of his main works are the frescoes with motifs from the life of Christ in San Bernardino, Ivrea.

Gallery

Crucifixion, fresco, 1486-1491, San Bernardino, Ivrea

Madonna and Child, Museo Civico, Turin

Bernardine of Siena, Fresco, San Bernardino, Ivrea