Gioacchino Assereto (1600-1650)

• Was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period.
• He initially apprenticed at age 12 with Luciano Borzone.
• From circa 1614 he was in the studio of Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo.
• He attended the Academy of the Nude instituted by Giancarlo Doria.
• He was active in Genoa.

• In 1639 Assereto he travelled to Rome where he visited the studios of various painters.

• He met Genoese artists working in Rome, such as Luca Saltarello, Giovanni Maria Bottalla, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Giovanni Andrea Podestà.

• In 1640s Assereto was active as a fresco painter.

• In his later years many copies of his work were produced in his studio, some by his son Giuseppe Assereto.

• The artist was in his lifetime praised by the contemporary Genoese biographer Raffaele Soprani as incomparable.

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