Giovanni Schiavoni

Giovanni Schiavoni (July 1804, Trieste - 7 September 1848, Venice) was an Italian painter and art professor, who worked in Austria and Moldavia.

In 1837 he went to Iași, where Gheorghe Asachi, academic advisor to Prince Mihail Sturdza, had recruited him for a professorship at the recently established Academia Mihăileană.

[1] He was called back to his professorship in 1841, by Prince Sturdza, in answer to a complaint that the teaching there had declined, and the students were producing little or nothing.

Shortly after, he was offered 1,000 Lei to collect antique busts and casts for the new " Eforia Școalelor" (a public school).

[1] In 1844, he returned to Italy and died of a fever, contracted while fighting at Fort Marghera, during the Revolution of 1848.