Pietro Facchetti

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Pietro Facchetti, Maria de Medici, ca. 1595

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 the younger, but then moved to Rome and joined the studio of Scipione da Gaeta, where he gained fame as a portrait painter.

References

Coddè, Segretario dell Belle Arti in Mantova, Dottore Pasquale (1837). Aumentate e scritte Dottore Fisico, Luigi Coddè, ed. 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. pp. pages 61–62.

Persondata
Name	Facchetti, Pietro
Alternative names
Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	1539
Place of birth
Date of death	27 February 1613
Place of death

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