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    Painting of a still life with lute, carpet, dog, chickens and vase of flowers

    Giovanni Agostino Cassana (Venice, Italy, c. 1658 – Genoa, Italy, 1720) 

     

    Born in Venice around 1658 to a painter, Giovanni Agostino Cassana has few well-documented details about his life. He is believed to have been registered with the Venetian painters’ guild between 1687 and 1703, and possibly still in 1711. 

     

    He trained in his father’s workshop alongside his brothers, Nicolò and Giovanni Battista, initially adopting a naturalistic style similar to theirs. For some time, he served the Duchess of Guastalla before moving to the court in Florence, where his brother Nicolò was in the employ of Prince Ferdinando. 

     

    Cassana maintained connections with Florence: he is documented in inventories from 1697; there are also records of correspondence between him and his Florentine colleagues as late as 1714, and he exhibited several works at the Cloister of the Annunziata in 1715 and 1729. 

     

    In 1718, he relocated from Venice to Genoa, where he passed away in 1720. 

     

    Photo UniCredit Group (Sebastiano Pellion di Persano)

     

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