Giovanni d'Alemagna (c. 1411 – 1450)

• Was a Venetian renaissance painter of German ancestry, active in Italy.
• His brother-in-law was Antonio Vivarini.
• Giovanni d'Alemagna is remembered above all for the work done in Venice.
• Between 1430 and 1435 he created a cycle called Stories of Christ, which are still exhibited at the Ca' d'Oro.
• According to Ridolfo and Zanetti, Giovanni and Antonio Vivarini flourished about the year 1440, where they adduce authority for an altar-piece in San Pantalon, which bears the inscription of Zuane e Antonio da Muran pense 1444. 

• Giovanni d'Alemagna and Antonio Vivarini ran an shop in Venice that specialized in multi-tiered, multi-paneled altarpieces and fanciful Gothic frames, which they subcontracted to various woodworkers.

• Giovanni in 1448 worked at Vivarini's workshop, which was moved to Padua, together with Andrea Mantegna and Nicolò Pizolo, in the decoration of the Ovetari Chapel.

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