Giovanni Antonio Sogliani: A Florentine Renaissance Painter Life and Early Career Giovanni Antonio Sogliani was born in Florence, Italy, in 1492. Details of his early life are scarce, but he became a prominent painter during the High Renaissance period. According to Giorgio Vasari’s *Vite*, Sogliani apprenticed with Lorenzo di Credi for two decades. While the length of this apprenticeship is debated, it suggests a strong found…