Giovanni Battista Tortiroli
Giovanni Battista Tortiroli (* 1621 in Cremona ; † 1651 ibid) was an Italian Baroque painter .
He began as a student of the Mannerist painter Andrea Mainardi , then he went to Rome to work and develop his style further. In Rome he studied the work of Raffael . He was particularly fond of Jacopo Palma's color scheme and moved to Venice . In his painting Child Murder of Bethlehem , formerly in San Domenico in Cremona, you can see imitations of Raphael, but above all the Venetian style.
A pupil of Tortiroli was Giovanni Battista Lazzaroni .
literature
- Tortiroli, Giov. Batt. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 310 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tortiroli, Giovanni Battista |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian Baroque painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1621 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cremona |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1651 |
| Place of death | Cremona |