Giovanni Paolo Recchi
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Giovanni Paolo Recchi was an Italian
Italy
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 painter and architect of the 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.

Born in Como
Como
Como is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy.It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como....

. He worked in Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 and the Duchy of Savoy
Duchy of Savoy
From 1416 to 1847, the House of Savoy ruled the eponymous Duchy of Savoy . The Duchy was a state in the northern part of the Italian Peninsula, with some territories that are now in France. It was a continuation of the County of Savoy...

 in fresco, with the assistance of his nephew Giovanni Antonio and his brother Giovanni Battista Recchi
Giovanni Battista Recchi
Giovanni Battista Recchi was an Italian painter of the 17th century, a pupil of Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, and brother of Giovanni Paolo Recchi. Ho became well-known at Turin, where he was working about 1660. He painted historical subjects, and was assisted in his studio by his nephew Giovanni...

. Active in 1560.
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