Giovanni Battista Loreti

Giovanni Battista Loreti (1686 in Fano – 13 December 1760, in Fabriano) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period, active mainly in Fabriano, Papal States.

Life Born in Fano, his first years were in Fabriano, he soon moved to Rome, where he trained under Carlo Cignani. Moving back to Fabriano, he painted in a number of churches there and in San Severino Marche. His children, David (1708-1768), Eugenio (1725-1762), and Rosalba (died 1762), were also artists. Rosalba married Nicolò Miliani and of their sons, Michelangelo and Pietro Miliano also became artists.