Johann Liss, ca. (1590/1600–1631)

• Was a leading German Baroque painter.
• Liss was born in Oldenburg (Holstein) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
• After an initial education in his home state, he continued his studies, according to Houbraken, with Hendrick Goltzius in Haarlem and Amsterdam.
• Around 1620 he travelled through Paris to Venice.
• He moved to Rome around 1620–1622.
• In 1627, he created an admired large altarpiece, the Inspiration of Saint Jerome in San Nicolò da Tolentino.
• Liss fled to Verona to escape the plague spreading in Venice, but succumbed there prematurely in 1629.
• Joachim von Sandrart wrote in 1675 that "because he fared well in Venice, he soon returned there ... he died along with many others during the plague that began in 1629."
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