Giovan Battista Langetti

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Giovanni Battista Langetti (1625–1676), also known as Giambattista Langetti, was an Italian late-Baroque painter. He was active in his native Genoa, then Rome, and finally for the longest period in Venice.

He first trained with

Johann Karl Loth and Antonio Zanchi
. He painted many historical busts for private patrons in the Venetian territory and in Lombardy. He died at Venice in 1676.

Giovan Battista Langetti, The Suicide of Catão

References

  • Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. 1980. Penguin Books. p. 346. .
  • Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z). London: George Bell and Sons. p. 18. Retrieved 11 November 2013.(Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007)