About Francesco Gentileschi
Lived 1597 – 1660 (aged 62–63). Francesco Gentileschi was a painter.
Francesco Lomi Gentileschi (; before 11 June 1597 in Rome – after 1665 in Angers) was an Italian Baroque painter. Son of Orazio Gentileschi and brother of Artemisia Gentileschi, he was trained at the studio of Genoese painter Domenico Fiasella. He travelled to London with his father, and upon his death in 1639 he went to Portugal with his brother Giulio. Later in his life, he moved to France, where he worked for Louis XIV.
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Italian painter
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Francesco Gentileschi was born in 1597 in Rome.
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Francesco Gentileschi died in 1660.
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Francesco Gentileschi was a painter.
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