Giovanni da San Giovanni (1592–1636)

• Also known as Giovanni Mannozzi, was an Italian painter.
• Born in San Giovanni Valdarno.
• He trained under Matteo Rosselli.
• He traveled to Rome where he admired the fresco painted in 1614 by Guido Reni, depicting the Aurora.
• He was soon called back to Florence.

• Mannozzi started the decoration of the Sala degli Argenti in the Palazzo Pitti and planned decorations at Villa La Petraia.

• In 1615 he painted two ceiling canvases of Putti Supporting the profile of Michelangelo for the Casa Buonarroti and in the same period frescoed a choir of musician-angels for the dome of the church of the Ognissanti in Florence. 

• His masterpiece is said to be frescoes in the chapel of Saint Catherine inside the Palazzo Rospigliosi-Pallavicini in Pistoia.

• While escaping Florence during the plague, he painted some frescoes in the lunettes in the Santuario della Madonna della Fontenuova in Monsummano Terme.

• He died in 1636 and was buried in the church of San Pier Gattolino in Florence.

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