Giovanni Battista Beinaschi (1636–1688) was an Italian

Italy

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 painter and engraver active in the late-Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 period. He was born in Turin

Turin

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. He first trained in the Piedmont

Piedmont

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, under a painter by the name of Spirito, then was the main pupil of Pietro dal Po in Rome. In Naples

Naples

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, he painted several ceilings and frescoes. He completed an etching of a Holy Family, after Giovanni Domenico Cerrini

Giovanni Domenico Cerrini

Giovanni Domenico Cerrini , also called Gian Domenico Cerrini or il Cavalier Perugino, was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and influenced in large part by painter of the Bolognese School.-Biography:...

, who was his intimate friend. He died in Rome. His sister, Angiola Beinaschi, was a portrait painter who died at the age of 80 years. He is also known by the surname Benaschi.
Among his pupils is Orazio Frezza

Orazio Frezza

Orazio Frezza was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born and active in Naples,He was instructed by Giovanni Battista Benaschi. He afterwards studied the works of Giovanni Lanfranco and Domenichino, whom he imitated with some success. He painted for a church in Naples, a Calvary now...

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