Giacomo Bolognini was an Italian

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 painter of the Baroque

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 period. The nephew of Giovanni Battista Bolognini

Giovanni Battista Bolognini

Giovanni Battista Bolognini was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque. He was born and died at Bologna. He was a pupil of Guido Reni. He painted a Virgin and child with St. Dominic, St. Eustatius, and Mary Magdalene for Santa Maria Nuova. He painted a Dead Christ mourned by the Virgin, St...

, he was born in Bologna

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. Married to Antonia Margherita Contoli, he had two sons, Giovanni Battista and Francesco, and four daughters, Anna, Olimpia, Rosalba and Teresa.

Following tutelage under his uncle, he painted St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata for the church of Santi Sebastiano e Rocco in Bologna, and The Dead Christ, with the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalen now housed in the National Museum of Bologna. His works can be found in Rome

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, Mantua

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, Venice

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, Prague

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 and Cadiz

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In 1715 he was appointed the director of the Clementine Academy.