Giovanni Battista Tortiroli Explained

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

• Book: Bryan, Michael. 1889. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical . II L-Z . Walter Armstrong . Robert Edmund Graves . 582 . George Bell and Sons. London .

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=RelZAAAAYAAJ La pittura cremonese
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=NA5BAAAAcAAJ Notizie Istoriche De Pittori, Scultori, Ed Architetti Cremonesi
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=DhxfAAAAcAAJ Biografia degli artisti