Giovanni Baglione (1566–1643),

• Was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. 
• He was born and died in Rome,
• He was a pupil of the obscure Florentine artist working in Rome, Francesco Morelli.
• He spent 1621–1622 in Mantua as the court artist of Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga, where the exposure to the fabulous Gonzaga collection of Venetian paintings influenced his style.
• Otherwise he remained in Rome, where he was long successful in attracting commissions from the Papal court and aristocracy.
• He had a successful career, receiving a Papal knighthood in the Supreme Order of Christ in 1606, and his long involvement with Rome's Accademia di San Luca and his biographies reveal "an artist obsessed with status".
• He was a member of the Accademia from 1593 until his death, and three times President.
•Apart from the regular later title of "first historian of the Roman Baroque", in his lifetime he was also nicknamed Il Sordo del Barozzo as he suffered from deafness.
• He died in Rome on 30 December 1643 at the age of 77.