Domenico Maria Viani

Domenico Maria Viani (1668–1711) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Biography

Christ rejects those contesting the Eucharist

He was born in Bologna, the son of Giovanni Maria Viani, and was educated there under his father, who kept a rival academy to that of Carlo Cignani. For the church of La Natività at Bologna, there is a series of Prophets and Evangelists by him ; for the church of Santo Spirito, Bergamo, he painted a Miracle of St Antony of Padua. He died in Pistoia.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong and 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.