About Pier Francesco Cavazza
Lived 1675 – 1755 (aged 79–80). Pier Francesco Cavazza was a painter.
Pier Francesco Cavazza (1675 – 14 October 1755) was an Italian painter and art collector, active in his native Bologna then part of the Papal States.
History He trained in Bologna under Giovanni Maria Viani, where he was influenced by the works of Guercino. Unlike other Viani pupils, he became less interested in painting, and accumulated a large collection of engravings and drawings. Upon his death, the collection was dispersed. Cavazza died in Bologna.
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Italian painter and art collector
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Pier Francesco Cavazza was born in 1675 in Bologna.
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Pier Francesco Cavazza died on 14 October 1755 in Bologna.
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