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Giovanni Battista Paggi

Italian painter (–)

Giovanni Battista Paggi (25[1] or 27 February – 12 March ) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and writer.[2] His style spans the Late-Renaissance and early-Baroque.

Life

He was born in Genoa into the well-to-do family of his father Pellegrino.

In an apparent dispute over pay, he is said to have mortally wounded a patron, and was forced to flee Genoa in , and take refuge in Tuscany, in the towns of Aulla sul Magra, then Pisa, and finally to Florence.

Giovanni battista paggi house Roma Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. Paggi, Sacra Famiglia in un interno. En torno a Juan Emar Niall Binns. Paggi may have taken this step to further discourage the type of dispute that had resulted in his conviction and exile.

He joined the Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno in He shared a studio in Florence with Federico Zuccari. He maintained contact with his native town and returned to Genoa briefly in as a guest of the Doria family.[3] Giovanni Battista Paggi became renowned among fellow artists throughout Europe when in he won his case against the Genoese Painters' guild and was allowed to practice his art without having to become a member of the Guild.

The government of Genoa decided the case in his favour on grounds of public as it wished to encourage persons of noble birth such as Paggi to become artists to add to the glory of the city.[4]

He settled back in Genoa in [3]

He was the teacher of Giulio Benso, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Sinibaldo Scorza, Domenico Fiasella, and Giovanni Andrea Podestà.

Other sources cite Scorza, Luciano Borzone, Giulio BensoBernardo Castello, Giovanni Domenico Cappellino, and Agostino, & Giovanni Battista Montanari as his pupils.[3]

Work

Giovanni Battista Paggi is known as a follower of the style of Luca Cambiasi.[3]

Works

Sources

Notes

  1. ^Damm, Heiko.

    Giovanni battista paggi house restaurant Lot Lot Essay Of noble Genoese birth, Giovanni Battista Paggi was banished from his native city in following a trial in which he was convicted for the murder of a man over the disputed payment of a painting. Lukehart, Contending ideals: The nobility of G. This article about an Italian painter born in the 16th century is a stub.

    "Paggi, Giovanni Battista ()". Artists of the World. Retrieved 3 January

  2. ^Giovanni Battista Paggi at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  3. ^ abcdMary Newcome, Review of La Pittura in Liguria, artisti del primo seicento (monographs), In: The Burlington Magazine () 12(), p.

  4. ^John Henry Merryman; Albert Elsen; Stephen K Urice, Law, ethics and the visual arts, Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn, , p.

External links

Media related to Giovanni Battista Paggi (painter) at Wikimedia Commons