Giovanni Battista Langetti (1635-1676)
• Also known as Giambattista Langetti.
• Was an Italian late-Baroque painter.
• He was active in his native Genoa, then Rome, and finally for the longest period in Venice.
• He first trained with Assereto, then Pietro da Cortona, but afterwards studied under Giovanni Francesco Cassana.
• He is thought to have influenced Johann Karl Loth and Antonio Zanchi.
• He painted many historical busts for private patrons in the Venetian territory and in Lombardy.
• He died at Venice in 1676.
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Giovanni Battista Langetti, The Vision of Saint Jerome, c. 1660
Original, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.
Giovanni Battista Langetti, The Vision of Saint Jerome, c. 1660
Giovanni Battista Langetti, Old Woman with Pearls and Letter, Vanitas, c. 1663
Original, Šternberský palác, Praha. Visited in 2017-2021.
Giovanni Battista Langetti, Old Woman with Pearls and Letter, Vanitas, c. 1663.
