The painting, by de Pieri, surrounding the 15th-century image of Our Lady of Grace in the altar of the same name in Rovigo Cathedral.
Giovanni Antonio De Pieri, known as il Zoppo Vicentino (1671–1751) was an Italian painter of the Baroque style, born and active in Vicenza.[1]
He was prolific locally in painting sacred subjects. He was dismissed by the art historian Lanzi as having an easy brush but less decisive.[2] An inventory of art in Vicenza in 1769, cites the following works by Pieri:[3]
God the Father and Saints, Education of the Virgin, Flight to Egypt, and Madonna and Child at San Bartolomeo