Carlo Giuseppe Ratti

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Carlo Giuseppe Ratti (1737-1795) was an Italian art biographer and painter of the late-Baroque period. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Agostino Ratti, a pupil of Savona. Born in Genoa, he moved to Rome where he befriened Anton Raphael Mengs and Pompeo Batoni. He added to Rafaello Soprani’s history of Genoese painters: Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti genovesi first published in 1769 in Genoa. He painted an Annunciation for the church of Santa Maria delle Vigne in Genoa. He also published A Life of Rafael Mengs, and Notices of Correggio. He was knighted by Pope Pius VI.

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• Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 142.