Pier Lorenzo Spoleti was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

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 period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa

Genoa

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Born and died in Finale Ligure

Finale Ligure

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 in Italy. Spoleti's parents died when he was young and he went to live with an aunt, who seeing his inclination to paintings sent him to apprentice with Domenico Piola

Domenico Piola

Domenico Piola was a Genoese painter of the Baroque period. His family studio was highly prolific.-Biography:Piola was an Italian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and designer...

 at the age of 15 years. He returned to hometown after a few years, where he married, then traveled to Cadiz

Cádiz

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, Spain

Spain

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, to look for employment, leaving his wife behind in Finale Ligure. From Cadiz, he followed a patron who had been reassigned to Madrid

Madrid

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, soon he traveled to Lisbon

Lisbon

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 where he worked for four years, then back to Genoa.

In Genoa, his former master, Piola, was impressed with his skills.
He was known for portrait painting and made reproductions of master paintings by Titian

Titian

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near...

 and others he had seen in Madrid. For the parish church of Finale he painted copies of major canvases for the chorus. His major pupils were Giuseppe Folco, Giuseppe Piuma, and Giacomo Grana.