About Pietro Facchetti
Lived 1539 – 1613 (aged 73–74). Pietro Facchetti was a painter.
Pietro Facchetti (1539 – 27 February 1613) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, mainly active in Rome.
Born to a poor family in Mantua. Facchetti initially trained with Lorenzo Costa the younger, but then moved to Rome and joined the studio of Scipione da Gaeta, where he gained fame as a portrait painter.
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Who was Pietro Facchetti?
Italian painter (1539-1613)
When was Pietro Facchetti born?
Pietro Facchetti was born in 1539 in Mantua.
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Pietro Facchetti died on 27 February 1613 in Rome.
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Pietro Facchetti was a painter.
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