Giovanni Maria Butteri Mourners at the Funeral of San Giovanni Gualberto (detail with Self Portrait) ca. 1580 fresco Cappella di San Giovanni Gualberto, Abbazia di San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Mourners at the Funeral of San Giovanni Gualberto ca. 1580 fresco Cappella di San Giovanni Gualberto, Abbazia di San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Mourners at the Funeral of San Giovanni Gualberto (detail with Self Portrait) ca. 1580 fresco Cappella di San Giovanni Gualberto, Abbazia di San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Mourners at the Funeral of San Giovanni Gualberto (detail) ca. 1580 fresco Cappella di San Giovanni Gualberto, Abbazia di San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Mourners at the Funeral of San Giovanni Gualberto (detail) ca. 1580 fresco Cappella di San Giovanni Gualberto, Abbazia di San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Ornamental Grotesques ca. 1580 fresco Cappella di San Giovanni Gualberto, Abbazia di San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Ornamental Grotesques ca. 1580 fresco Cappella di San Giovanni Gualberto, Abbazia di San Michele Arcangelo a Passignano |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Return from the Palio ca. 1575 oil on canvas National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Allegory of Time ca. 1582-85 oil on canvas private collection |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Virgin and Child enthroned with Angels and Saints 1597 oil on panel (altarpiece) Chiesa di San Bartolomeo in Pantano a Pistoia |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Virgin and Child enthroned with Angels and Saints (detail) 1597 oil on panel Chiesa di San Bartolomeo in Pantano a Pistoia |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Virgin and Child with St Anne and members of the Medici Family as Saints 1575 oil on panel (altarpiece) Chiesa di San Salvi, Florence |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Virgin and Child with St Anne and members of the Medici Family as Saints (detail) 1575 oil on panel Chiesa di San Salvi, Florence |
Giovanni Maria Butteri Virgin and Child with St Anne and members of the Medici Family as Saints (detail) 1575 oil on panel Chiesa di San Salvi, Florence |
Giovanni Maria Butteri – was, according to Baldinucci, a native of Florence, and a scholar of Agnolo Bronzino. Although he painted history with some success, his drawing is much less correct than that of his master, and his colouring rather harsh and crude. There are several of his works in the churches and convents at Florence, where he died in 1606.
– Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical by Michael Bryan, Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1886)