Giovanni Battista Langetti - Artist Info

About Giovanni Battista Langetti

  • 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)

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