Pietro Facchetti
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Pietro Facchetti (1539-27 February 1613) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance, mainly active in Rome.
Born to a poor family in Mantua. Facchetti initially trained with Lorenzo Costa, but then moved to Rome and joined the studio of Scipione da Gaeta, where he gained fame as a portrait painter.
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- Coddè, Segretario dell Belle Arti in Mantova, Dottore Pasquale (1837). in Aumentate e scritte Dottore Fisico, Luigi Coddè: Memorie Biografiche, poste in forma di Dizionario die Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed Incisori Mantovani. Presso i Fratelli Negretti, Mantua; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on October 16, 2006, pages 61-62.
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