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Giovanni Di Matteo

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(or Matteo di Giovanni), an eminent Sienese painter, flourished from 1450 to 1491. He painted first in his native city in fresco. His masterpiece was the Murder of the Innocents, a subject which he repeated both at Siena and at Naples. Some of his paintings are still to be found in the collections of noble houses at Siena.