Giovanni Andrea Biscaino was an Italian painter of 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, described by the '' Grove Dictionary of Art'' as a "mediocre landscape painter". He was born in Genoa. He was the father and teacher of the painter, etcher and draughtsman Bartolomeo Biscaino. He died at Genoa of the

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in 1657.

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* 1657 deaths 17th-century Genoese people 17th-century Italian painters 17th-century deaths from plague (disease) Italian male painters Painters from Genoa Italian Baroque painters Year of birth unknown Italian landscape painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub