Carlo Girolamo Bersotti (born

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, 1645 -died 1700s) was an Italian painter, active during the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period in

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. He was a pupil of

Carlo Sacchi Carlo Sacchi (1617–1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Pavia and trained with a painter Carlo Antonio Rossi in Milan,Filippo De Boni, ''Biografia degli artisti: Volume unico'', Venezia 1840 then traveled to Rome ...

(1617-1703), and painted mainly landscapes, still lifes, and animals.Bollettino della Società pavese di storia patria
Fratelli Fusi, 1908, Page 344. Also called ''Borsotti''.

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* 1645 births 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Italian still life painters Italian painters of animals Year of death unknown Artists from Pavia 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub