# VECCHI, Giovanni de' [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1536–1614 - Profession: painter - School: Italian ## Biography Italian painter. After training with Raffaello dal Colle in his native Borgo Sansepolcro, then with Taddeo Zuccaro, Giovanni de'Vecchi enjoyed a career spanning over fifty years, spent mostly in Rome. He assisted Taddeo Zuccari in the interior decoration of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, a major work in the Mannerist style. He also has paintings in many Roman churches: the Life of St Jerome in Santa Maria in Aracoeli; the four Doctors of the Church \(Gregory, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine\) in the cupola of Il Gesù, St Sebastian in Sant'Andrea della Valle; frescoes with the stories of St Catherine in Cappella Capranica of the Santa Maria sopra Minerva; Deposition in the sacristy of Santa Prassede, decoration of a chapel in San Pietro in Montorio, etc. The mosaics for the tribune of St Peter's basilica with St John and St Luke are based on his cartoons. ## Related artworks - [Carrying the Cross]() - [General view]() - [General view]() - [View of the ceiling \(detail\)]() - [View of the ceiling \(detail\)]() - [View of the ceiling \(detail\)]() - [View of the ceiling]() - [View of the ceiling]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()