About Giovanni Battista Discepoli
Lived 1590 – 1654 (aged 63–64). Giovanni Battista Discepoli was a Swiss painter.
Giovanni Battista Discepoli (1590–1660), also called "Lo Zoppo di Lugano" from his being a cripple, was a Swiss-Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Milan.
Born in Lugano, Switzerland, he was a pupil of the painter Camillo Procaccini. In Milan, he painted a Purgatory for the church of San Carlo, and an Adoration of the Magi originally painted for San Marcello is now in the Brera Gallery. Lugano also has some of his works; in the church of Santa Teresa at Como is a picture of that Saint. One of his pupils was Pompeo Ghiti from Brescia.
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Italian painter (1590-1654)
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Giovanni Battista Discepoli was born in 1590 in Lugano.
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Giovanni Battista Discepoli died in 1654 in Milan.
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Giovanni Battista Discepoli was Swiss.
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