About Giovanni Battista Bolognini
Lived 1611 – 1688 (aged 76–77). Giovanni Battista Bolognini was a painter and printmaker.
Giovanni Battista Bolognini (1611 in Bologna – 1688 in Bologna) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque.
He was a pupil of Guido Reni. He painted a Virgin and child with St Dominic, St Eustatius, and Mary Magdalene for Santa Maria Nuova. He painted a Dead Christ mourned by the Virgin, St. John, and others; an Immaculate Conception for the church of Santa Lucia. He etched a Murder of the Innocents, a St Peter named Head of the Church; a Bacchus and Ariadne; and The Crucifixion after Reni.
He was an uncle and teacher of the Bolognese painter Giacomo Bolognini.
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Who was Giovanni Battista Bolognini?
Italian painter and printmaker (1611-1688)
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Giovanni Battista Bolognini was born in 1611 in Bologna.
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Giovanni Battista Bolognini died on 2 November 1688 in Bologna.
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Giovanni Battista Bolognini was a painter and printmaker.
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