Giovanni Battista Beinaschi

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Giovanni Battista Beinaschi (1636-1688) was an Italian painter and engraver active in the late-Renaissance period. He was born in Turin. He first trained in the Piedmont, under a painter by the name of Spirito, then was the main pupil of Pietro dal Po in Rome. In Naples, he painted several ceilings and frescoes. He completed an etching of a Holy Family, after Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, who was his intimate friend. He died in Rome. His sister, Angiola Beinaschi, was a portrait painter who died at the age of 80 years. He is also known by the surname Benaschi.

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