Giovanni Battista Revello
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Giovanni Battista Revello (1672–1732), also called il Mustacchi, was an Italian
painter of the Baroque
period. He was born in Genoa
and studied under Enrico Haffner
, and formed a close friendship with Francesco Costa
. For twenty years they worked painting landscape elements for other historical painters.
Italy
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painter of the Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
period. He was born in Genoa
Genoa
Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
and studied under Enrico Haffner
Enrico Haffner
Enrico Haffner was an Italian painter of quadratura during the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna in the late 16th and early 17th centuries....
, and formed a close friendship with Francesco Costa
Francesco Costa
Francesco Costa was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in his Native Genoa. He was the pupil of the painter Gregorio de Ferrari in Genoa, and later of Antonio Maria Haffner. He often painted with Giovanni Battista Revello . He painted in the Palazzo Grilli in Pegli.He...
. For twenty years they worked painting landscape elements for other historical painters.