Giovanni Domenico PIESTRINI (Piastrini, Pistrini, Pestrini)
Giovanni Domenico PIESTRINI (Piastrini, Pistrini, Pestrini) by Rita Randolfi - Biographical Dictionary of Italians - Volume 83 (2015) He was born in Pistoia on September 4, 1680 by Francesco Maria of Arezzo origin, painter and his first teacher. It is not known exactly the surname of the artist, who sometimes signs Pistrini talaltra Pestrini. In the States of Anime it is registered as Pistrini, while in the acts of birth and death it is remembered as Piestrini. Sometimes the name has been crippled in Piastrini (Esuperanzi, 1987, p.76). The father, a pupil of Salvator Rosa, was mainly active in Pistoia, where he painted a panel with S. Nicola da Tolentino for the destroyed church of S. Lorenzo and decorations both for the complex of S. Mercuriale, today the seat of the Pretura and Conciliation , both in the cloister, in the Chapter and in some rooms of the convent of the Ss. Annunziata, lost. For the works in the cloister, festoons supported by giants found in 1815 and then deteriorated, Francesco Maria involved his son, who presumably lived from birth (documented from 1696) until 1704 with his family near the parish of St. John the Evangelist Fuorcivitas . In 1697, 1698 and 1701 Piestrini was absent from his hometown (Esuperanzi, 1987, p.76). Piestrini continued his apprenticeship in Florence (Pius, 1724, 1977, page 90) or Pisa (Marrini, 1765-66, II, p.11) with the Sienese Giuseppe Nicola Nasini, who was also a pupil of Ciro Ferri. According to Nicola Pio, in Florence Piestrini met his patron, as well as countryman: cardinal Carlo Agostino Fabroni, who facilitated his transfer to Rome in 1702.
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