Girolamo Curti was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the early-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...

, specializing in quadratura.

He was also called il Dentone.
He was born to a poor family at Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

, and worked for cloth spinner till age 25. His first formal training was with the Cremonese painter Cesare Baglioni

Cesare Baglioni

Cesare Baglioni was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He trained under his father, then became renowned as a painter of quadratura. He painted in Parma and Rome. He befriended both Agostino and Annibale Carracci. He is not to be confused with the Baroque painter and art historian,...

 (no evident relation to Giovanni Baglione

Giovanni Baglione

Giovanni Baglione was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. He is best remembered for his acrimonious involvement with the artist Caravaggio and his writings concerning the other Roman artists of his time.-Early life:A pupil of Francesco Morelli, he worked mainly...

). He apparently quickly worked independently then rejoined his friend and fellow Bolognese and Baglione pupil, Lionello Spada. Together during the early 17th century, they began to collaborate in quadratura, with Curti painting the structures, while Spada painted the figures. They soon parted, with Spada becoming a canvas painter, and Curti was to travel to paint in Modena

Modena

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, Parma

Parma

Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....

 (1618 and 1630), Rome (1623) and Genoa

Genoa

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. He returned from Rome to Bologna, and there was assisted by Michelangelo Colonna, Agostino Mitelli

Agostino Mitelli

Agostino Mitelli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period and best known as a fresco painter of quadratura or illusionistic perspectival architectural frameworks....

, and Andrea Seghizzi

Andrea Seghizzi

Andrea Seghizzi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna.Seghizzi was born in Bologna around 1630. He initially trained with Francesco Albani and Lucio Massari, but then worked alongside Francesco Brizio and then Francesco Gessi, mostly as a fresco artist...

, and painted architectural backgrounds for Guercino frescoes. Much of his work has been lost over the centuries.

The main source of his biography is Cesare Malvasia, whose father's villa at Trebbio was frescoed by Curti and assistants.