Giovanni Battista Ramacciotti Explained

Giovanni Battista Ramacciotti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, as well as an engraver and priest, active in Siena.^[1]

He was a priest of Siena, who lived about the middle of the 17th century, and practised portrait and historical painting. In the Franciscan church at Siena there is a Nativity by him, and at the Uffizi in Florence, a Birth of the Virgin. Cornelis Bloemaert II engraved after him the portrait of a Nun, Colomba da Tofaninis.

References

• Book: Bryan, Michael. 1889. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical . II L-Z . Walter Armstrong . Robert Edmund Graves . 344 . George Bell and Sons. London .

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Ramacciotti, Giovanni Battista . Benezit Dictionary of Artists . 31 October 2011 . Oxford University Press . 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00148474.