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.
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