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Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Italian painter (–)
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| Born | Giovanni Battista Gaulli ()8 May Genoa, Republic of Genoa |
| Died | 2 April () (aged&#;69) Rome, Papal States |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known&#;for | Painting |
| Movement | Baroque |
Giovanni Battista Gaulli (8 May – 2 April ), also known as Baciccio or Baciccia (Genoese nicknames for Giovanni Battista), was an Italian Baroque painter working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods.
He is best known for his grand illusionistic vault frescos in the Church of the Gesù in Rome. His work was influenced by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Biography
Gaulli was born in Genoa, where his parents died from the plague of He initially apprenticed with Luciano Borzone.[1] In the midth century, Gaulli's Genoa was a cosmopolitan Italian artistic center open to both commercial and artistic enterprises from north European countries, including countries with non-Ca