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period, between about 1616 and 1649. British Museum
Giovanni Battista Bracelli (Biographical details)
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, one Giovanni Battista Braccelli studied under

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("il Paggi") and was active in Genova, where he worked in the churches of and Santi Cosma e Damiano, and where he died in 1609 at the age of 25. According to

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, he was born in 1584, became the most valued assistant to Paggi, and died before his twenty-fifth birthday. A Florentine Giovan Batista Braccelli was a pupil and collaborator of Jacopo da Empoli. He published in 1624 in

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a ''Bizzarie di varie figure'', a book of etchings with a dedication to Don Pietro de' Medici (who died in 1604). Other mentions are of a Florentine Giovanni Battista Bracelli who was a pupil of

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, and another also known as "Brazzé" or "Il Bigio". It is not clear whether these were different people to those above. A collection of engravings entitled ''Figure con instrumenti musicali e boscarecci'', published in Rome after 1624, also bears the name Giovanni Battista Bracelli, as does a rare ''Alfabeto figurato'' published in Naples in 1632.

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