Giovanni Battista Tortiroli

The Massacre of the Innocents

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 (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 582.
  1. ^ La pittura cremonese, by Principe Bartolommeo de Soresina Vidoni, page 34.
  2. ^ Notizie Istoriche De Pittori, Scultori, Ed Architetti Cremonesi, Volume 2, by Giambattista Zaist, Antonio M. Panni, page 78.
  3. ^ Biografia degli artisti by Filippo de Boni, page 542.


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