Marzio di Colantonio

Marzio di Colantonio or di Colantonio Ganassini or di Cola Antonio[1] (c. 1580s – after 1623) was an Italian painter, as a painter of still-lifes and landscapes, and fresco decorations of grotteschi and battle scenes with small figures.

His still-life paintings contain hunted game.

He was born in Rome, and trained initially under his father, a painter of Grotteschi.

He painted some sacred subjects including frescoes for the church of Santa Maria della Consolazione of Rome,[2] he was best known for his battle paintings, for which he was recruited by the Cardinal of Savoy to work for a time in Piedmont for the House of Savoy.

[3] He died young in Viterbo.

Alexander the Great in His Conquest of Asia , Walters Art Museum , 1620.