About Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi
Lived 1582 – 1659 (aged 76–77). Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi was an Italian painter, presbyter and illuminator.
Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi (1582–1659) was a Tuscan painter of the Baroque period. He is also called the Eremita di Monte Senario. He was born in , a frazione of Borgo San Lorenzo. He was a pupil of the painter Andrea Commodi and was also influenced by Jacopo Ligozzi and Pietro da Cortona.
For Ferdinand II Medici, Duke of Tuscany, he painted various history subjects, including four copies in miniature of works by Correggio, Andrea del Sarto, Raphael and Titian.
He died in Venice on 31 October 1659.
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Italian painter (1582-1659)
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Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi was born in 1582 in Borgo San Lorenzo.
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Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi died on 31 October 1659 in Venice.
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Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi was a painter, presbyter and illuminator.
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Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi was Italian.
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