Giovanni Domenico Brugieri (1678–1744) was an Italian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

of the late-

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

Lucca Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957. Lucca is known as one o ...

. Lanzi is cited as referring to him as either ''Giovanni Domenico'' or in other places as ''Giovanni Batista'' or ''Battista'',.

Biography

He was initially a pupil of

Lazzaro Baldi Lazzaro Baldi ( – 30 March 1703) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period active mainly in Rome.

in Rome, but then joined the large studio of

Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...

. His works are to be seen in the Chapel of the Sacrament at the Servi, the church of the Santissima Trinita, and in other edifices at Lucca. Among his pupils were

Gaetano Vetturali Gaetano Vetturali (1701–1783) was an Italian painter. Biography He specialized in imaginary landscapes (''capricci'') also called ''paesaggios'' or veduta (landscapes) with architecture and figures. Gaetano was born in Lucca. His initial traini ...

and

Giuseppe Antonio Luchi Giuseppe Antonio Luchi, also known as il Diecimino, (July 17, 1709 – May 12, 1774) was an Italian painter. He was born in Diecimo, now within Borgo a Mozzano, in the now Province of Lucca. He initially trained under a doctor Azzi of Castelnuovo, ...

.Memorie e documenti per servire all'istoria del Principato lucchese
Volume 1, Presso Francesco Bertini, page 169.

References

1678 births 1744 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Lucca Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub