1625 Genoa - 1676. Known for: Figure, allegorical painting.
The Genoa-born Giovanni Battista Langetti (c.1635-1676) was a popular Italian Baroque painter in his time. He lived and worked in Rome, Venice and Florence. He was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona and...
Read full biography The Genoa-born Giovanni Battista Langetti (c.1635-1676) was a popular Italian Baroque painter in his time. He lived and worked in Rome, Venice and Florence. He was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona and later he learned from G. F. Cassana in Florence, were he stayed for a longer time. The artist belongs...
Read full biography The Genoa-born Giovanni Battista Langetti (c.1635-1676) was a popular Italian Baroque painter in his time. He lived and worked in Rome, Venice and Florence. He was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona and later he learned from G. F. Cassana in Florence, were he stayed for a longer time. The artist belongs to the most important artists of the naturalistic tendency of the Baroque of the 17th century. Langetti mainly painted religious and mythological subjects such as apostles, saints, eremites as well as...
Read full biography The Genoa-born Giovanni Battista Langetti (c.1635-1676) was a popular Italian Baroque painter in his time. He lived and worked in Rome, Venice and Florence. He was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona and later he learned from G. F. Cassana in Florence, were he stayed for a longer time. The artist belongs to the most important artists of the naturalistic tendency of the Baroque of the 17th century. Langetti mainly painted religious and mythological subjects such as apostles, saints, eremites as well as philosophers characterize his oeuvre. (msc)
The Genoa-born Giovanni Battista Langetti (c.1635-1676) was a popular Italian Baroque painter in his time. He lived and worked in Rome, Venice and Florence. He was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona and later he learned from G. F. Cassana in Florence, were he stayed for a longer time. The artist belongs to the most important artists of the naturalistic tendency of the Baroque of the 17th century. Langetti mainly painted religious and mythological subjects such as apostles, saints, eremites as well as philosophers characterize his oeuvre. (msc)