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Giovanni Battista Braccelli
Giovanni Battista Bracelli or Braccelli is the name of more than one engraver and painter active in central Italy in the Baroque period, between about 1616 and 1649.
According to Filippo Baldinucci, one Giovanni Battista Braccelli studied under Giovanni Battista Paggi and was active in Genova, where he worked in the churches of Santa Maria dei Servi and Santi Cosma e Damiano, and where he died in 1609 at the age of 25. According to Stefano Ticozzi, he was born in 1584, became the most valued assistant to Paggi, and died before his twenty-fifth birthday.
A Florentine Giovan Batista Braccelli was a pupil and collaborator of Jacopo da Empoli. He published in 1624 in Livorno a Bizzarie di varie figure, a book of etchings with a dedication to Don Pietro de' Medici.
Other mentions are of a Florentine Giovanni Battista Bracelli who was a pupil of Giulio Parigi, and another also known as "Brazzé" or "Il Bigio". It is not clear whether these were different people to those above.
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Cupid and Psyche
Attributed to Paggi Giovanni Battista
Genova, 1554 – Genova, 1627
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Object details
Frame
(with late 18th-century stucco fillet) 160 x 174 x 5 cm
Provenance
Rome, Borghese Pile, 1790(Inventory,1790, coach X, no. 6); Inventario Fidecommissario Borghese 1833, p. 25. Purchased by Romance State, 1902.
Conservation and Diagnostic
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Commentary
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Giovanni Battista Braccelli
Italian painter and engraver (fl. 1616–1649)
Not to be confused with the Italian bishop Giovanni Battista Bracelli.
Giovanni Battista Bracelli or Braccelli is the name of more than one engraver and painter active in central Italy in the Baroque period,[1] between about 1616 and 1649.[2]
According to Filippo Baldinucci, one Giovanni Battista Braccelli studied under Giovanni Battista Paggi ("il Paggi") and was active in Genova, where he worked in the churches of Santa Maria dei Servi [it] and Santi Cosma e Damiano, and where he died in 1609 at the age of 25.[3]: 419 [1] According to Stefano Ticozzi, he was born in 1584, became the most valued assistant to Paggi, and died before his twenty-fifth birthday.[4]: 208
A Florentine Giovan Batista Braccelli was a pupil and collaborator of Jacopo da Empoli. He published in 1624 in Livorno a Bizzarie di varie figure, a book of etchings with a dedication to Don Pietro de' Medici (who died in 1604).[1][5][6]
Other mentions are of a Florentine Giovanni Battista Bracelli who was a pupil of Giulio Parigi, and another also known as "Brazzé" or "Il Bigio". It is not clear wh