Antonio Maria Viani

Mantua, St. Maurizio Church.

Antonio Maria Viani (born c. 1540) (also called Vianino) was an Italian painter and carver of the Renaissance period. He was born in Cremona. He was a pupil of the Campi. He was court painter to Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga, and adorned the large gallery of the Ducal Palace at Mantua with groups of children. He worked also at Capua. He died at Mantua at a very advanced age.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 664.