Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1632-1675  Related Paintings of VERMEER VAN DELFT, Jan :. | View of Delft (detail) est | A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman (detail) wt | The Procuress (detail) rt | Flowering almond tree branch in a glass | The Little Street (detail) wt |
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Joseph Mallord William Truner
born: London, England; 23 April 1775 died: London, England; 19 December 1851.
Charles Wild
1781-1835
Giovanni Battista Paggi
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1554-1627 Italian painter and theorist. As the son of a newly inscribed nobleman, he received a Renaissance gentleman's education, but as an artist he was it seems self-taught, despite the encouragement of Luca Cambiaso. The gentleman who then set up as a painter was obliged to give his work to patrons, sometimes expecting future remuneration; but when one patron reneged on payment in 1581, Paggi mortally wounded him and was banished from Genoa. He was given protection by Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and settled in Florence. A fresco of St Catherine Converting Two Criminals (1582), painted for Niccol? Gaddi's family chapel at S Maria Novella and thoroughly Florentine in manner, established Paggi's reputation at the Medici court. He painted ephemeral decorations, portraits (all untraced) and altarpieces for many Florentine churches and for the cathedrals of San Gimignano (c. 1590), Pistoia (1591-3) and Lucca (1597-8), having his studio in a house owned by Federico Zuccaro.