Giovanni Battista Tortiroli
Giovanni Battista Tortiroli (1621-1651) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.[1][2]
He was born in Cremona. He was a pupil of the Mannerist painter, Andrea Mainardi, but them moved to worked both in Rome and in Naples, and there altering his style. He died at the age of thirty. A pupil of Tortiroli was Giovanni Battista Lazzaroni.[3]
References
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 582.
- ↑ La pittura cremonese, by Principe Bartolommeo de Soresina Vidoni, page 34.
- ↑ Notizie Istoriche De Pittori, Scultori, Ed Architetti Cremonesi, Volume 2, by Giambattista Zaist, Antonio M. Panni, page 78.
- ↑ Biografia degli artisti by Filippo de Boni, page 542.
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