Francesco Busti (1678–1767) was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque and Neoclassical periods.

Biography

He was born in

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and pa ...

. He was putatively a pupil of

Giovanni Battista Gaulli Giovanni Battista Gaulli (8 May 1639 – 2 April 1709), also known as Baciccio or Baciccia (Genoese nicknames for ''Giovanni Battista''), was an Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is best known for his grand ...

. One of his pupils was Nicola Giuli and Baldassare Orsini, who later became an art historian. He painted an altarpiece of ''St Vincent Ferrer'' of the church of San Domenico in Perugia.Guida di Perugia: nel 1826
by Raffaele Gambini, page 53.

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1678 births 1767 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Umbrian painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub