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Giovanni Battista Gaulli

1639 - 1709

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Giovanni Battista Gaulli (8 May 1639 – 2 April 1709), also known as Baciccio or Baciccia (Genoese nicknames for Giovanni Battista), was an Italian Baroque painter working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is best known for his grand illusionistic vault frescos in the Church of the Gesù in Rome. His work was influenced by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Battista Gaulli is the 568th most popular painter (up from 675th in 2019), the 1,628th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,808th in 2019) and the 141st most popular Italian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giovanni Battista Gaulli ranks 568 out of 2,023. Before him are Bernardo Strozzi, Wenceslaus Hollar, Jules Dupré, Theodor Kittelsen, Wolf Vostell, and Charles-André van Loo. After him are Thomas Lawrence, Mattia Preti, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Max Pechstein, Raoul Hausmann, and Tsuguharu Foujita.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1639, Giovanni Battista Gaulli ranks 5. Before him are Jean Racine, Ivan Mazepa, Dom Pérignon, and Marie Mancini. After him are Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse, Gottfried Kirch, Laura Martinozzi, Caspar Netscher, and Metacomet. Among people deceased in 1709, Giovanni Battista Gaulli ranks 8. Before him are Andrea Pozzo, Giuseppe Torelli, Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Meindert Hobbema, and François Louis, Prince of Conti. After him are Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, François de la Chaise, Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano, Jean-François Regnard, and Abraham a Sancta Clara.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Gaulli ranks 1,628 out of 5,161. Before him are Maria, Queen of Sicily (1363), Adriano Banchieri (1568), Roberto Boninsegna (1943), Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (-116), Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1779), and Girolamo Riario (1443). After him are Bernardo Rossellino (1409), Fabrizio De André (1940), Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837), Iullus Antonius (-43), John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834), and Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma (1612).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Gaulli ranks 141. Before him are Carlo Maratta (1625), Andrea Solari (1460), Giuseppe Crespi (1665), Sebastiano Ricci (1659), Francesco Filippini (1853), and Bernardo Strozzi (1581). After him are Mattia Preti (1613), Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1683), Michael Pacher (1435), Paris Bordone (1500), Agostino Tassi (1578), and Giuseppe Cesari (1568).

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