Giuseppe Badaracco

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Giuseppe Badaracco (1588-1657) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Genoa, where he mainly painted. Also called Il Sordo (the deaf). He trained with Bernardo Strozzi, then Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo in Genoa, and worked for some years in Florence. One of his pupils was his son Giovanni Raffaello Badaracco. He died from the plague.

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