Giovanni de' Vecchi (1536,Sansepolcro – 1614) was an Italian painter of theRenaissance period.

Born inBorgo San Sepolcro, He first apprenticed with the painterRaffaello del Colle, then withTaddeo Zuccari, whom he assisted in the interior decoration of theVilla Farnese atCaprarola, a major work in theMannerist aesthetics. He also has paintings of theLife of St. Jerome inAra Coeli which he painted for the Delfin family, and in In the cupola of theGesu, he painted thefour doctors of the church (Gregory, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine). The mosaics for the tribune of St. Peter's basilica with St. John and St. Luke are based on his cartoons. He also contributed to the frescoes in the RomanOratorio del Santissimo Crocifisso.

One of his pupils wasCesare Torelli Romano.

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.).Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. pp. 193–4.Wornum.

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