Giovanni Battista Passeri (painter)

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Engraving depicting Giovanni Battista Passeri by Johann Jacob Haid .

Giovanni Battista Passeri (* around 1610 in Rome ; † April 22, 1679 ibid) was an Italian painter and art writer of the Baroque era in Rome.

Life

Passeri was a student at the Jesuit College Romano , where he probably also acquired basic artistic skills. In 1634 he restored frescoes in the chapel of Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati together with Domenichino's student Giovanni Angelo Canini . Passeri may have been a pupil of Domenichino himself. In 1661 he painted frescoes in Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj together with the Flemish Frans de Neve (1606–1688) and his assistant Francesco Pintinello . In 1638 he became a member of the Accademia di San Luca and in 1641 of the Congregazione Virtuosi al Pantheon, of which he became treasurer in 1663. In 1676 Passeri was ordained a priest in Santa Maria in Via Lata . In addition to his work as a fresco painter, portraits, genre paintings and still lifes have survived. One of his pupils was his nephew Giuseppe Passeri (1654–1714).

More important than his artistic work was Giovanni Battista Passeri's handwritten collection of artist biographies, which even today gives researchers an insight into the life of Roman artists from the period 1641 to 1673. The work was not published until 1772.

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