Giovanni Battista Lama
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Giovanni Battista Lama (1673 - 1748) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Naples. Along with Paolo de Matteis, he was pupil to the painters Luca Giordano. He painted historical canvases.
Note: He should not be confused with the fellow Neapolitan painter of the previous generation, Giovanni Bernardo Lama (1508-1579).
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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 80.
- Apotheosis of San Quentin