Giovanni Niccolò
Visual Artist
1560 – 1626
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Who was Giovanni Niccolò?
Giovanni Niccolo was a Jesuit Italian painter who in 1583 was sent to found a seminary of painting, named the Seminary of Painters in Portuguese Japan. This seminary, founded in 1590 and exiled from the Japanese archipelago fewer than three decades later, would become the largest school of western painting in Asia. While there, Niccolo also created devotional objects for use by Japanese Catholic churches and converts. His preferred images were primarily the Salvator Mundi and Madonna.
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