Ercole Ruggiero

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Ercole Ruggiero (17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

He was initially a devoted pupil of Francesco Gessi in Bologna; and also was known as Ercolino del Gessi or Ercolino da Bologna. His brother was known as Batistino del Gessi, initially a pupil of Domenichino, then became a pupil of Pietro da Cortona, who died during the papacy of Urban VIII.

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• Lanzi, Luigi (1847). in Thomas Roscoe (translator): History of Painting in Italy;From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Volume III). London; Original from Oxford University, Digitized January, 2007: Henry G. Bohn, page 98.