Giovanni Battista Pacetti, nicknamed Lo Sguazzino (1593–1630) 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, active in his native

Città di Castello Città di Castello (); "Castle Town") is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Perugia, in the northern part of Umbria. It is situated on a slope of the Apennines, on the flood plain along the upper part of the river Tiber. The city is north of ...

. His nickname derives from the splashed on technique. He was prolific in painting altarpieces and religious subjects.

Biography

He studied 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 part o ...

. He painted mainly in the Citta di Castello, where he decorated the ''Chapel of the Angel Guardian'' and the adjacent ''Chapel of St Michael Archangel'' in the

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. In 1609, the Jesuit order founded a college in Citta di Castello, and a few years later built the church of Gesu. For the church he painted what was once the main altarpiece with ''Saint Anthony Abbot, Francis Xavier, and Ignatius Loyola''. He also painted five other canvases of Saints for the church. For the parish church of San Bartolommeo, he painted an ''Apostle'' and a ''Madonna del Soccorso'', as well as ''Saints Jerome and Stephen''. He painted a ''Virgin with Saints Donino and Alberto'' for the first chapel on the left of the church of Phillip Neri. He also painted in the Convent of San Domenico.

References

1593 births 1630 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Umbrian painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub