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Pietro Paolini, called il Lucchese (1603 – 1681)

• Was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
• Working in Rome, Venice and finally his native Lucca.
• He was a follower of Caravaggio.
• Around 1652 Paolini founded the 'Academy of Painting and Drawing of Lucca', at which he helped train many painters.
• Paolini later almost entirely abandoned painting in order to devote himself to teaching.
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