Giovanni Batista Draghi (painter)

For the composer, see Giovanni Battista Draghi (composer).

Giovanni Batista Draghi (1657–1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Northern Italy.

Draghi was a scholar of Domenico Piola, active in Parma and more in Piacenza, where he died. There are many pictures by him in Piacenza, and amongst them the Death of St. James in the church of the Franciscans; a St. Agnes in the Duomo; a S. Lorenzo in the church of the same name, and the picture of Religious Orders receiving their regulations from St. Augustin. He also painted at Busseto, in the palace Pallavicino.

References

Lanzi, Luigi (1847). Thomas Roscoe (translator). ed. 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. pp. page 282. http://books.google.com/books?id=k0sGAAAAQAAJ&dq=luigi+lanzi.

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Name	Draghi, Giovanni Batista
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Date of birth	1657
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Date of death	1712
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