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Giovanni Battista Paggi

Painter, draughtsman and art theorist

Born
1554 in Genoa
Died
1627 in Genoa

3 Works by Giovanni Battista Paggi

Biography

Giovanni Battista Paggi (born in Genoa in 1554; died in Genoa in 1627), from a patrician family, was closely associated - as a pupil? - with Luca Cambiaso. In 1581 he fled to Florence after a murder; until his return to Genoa in 1599, he worked successfully as a painter in Tuscany.

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