Giovanni Battista Pozzi was an Italian painter, born at
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
towards the end of the 17th century. He decorated a large number of buildings in the
Piedmont
it, Piemontese
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, including ''San Cristoforo'' at
Vercelli
Vercelli (; pms, Vërsèj ), is a city and ''comune'' of 46,552 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy. One of the oldest urban sites in northern Italy, it was founded, according to most historians, ...
.
A pupil of
Raffaellino da Reggio
Raffaele Motta (1550 – 1578), known as Raffaellino da Reggio, was an Italian Mannerist style painter from Reggio Emilia, who mainly worked in Rome. He assimilated the style of Taddeo Zuccari and also developed more personal traits. In the las ...
, he flourished briefly under the Papacy of Sixtus V. He painted a ''Christ of the Angels'' for the church of the Gesu, Rome.
Biografia universale antica e moderna ossia Storia per alfabeto
Compiled in France by a Society, Volume 46, Presso Giovanni Batista Missiaglia, Tipografia di G. Molinari, 1828, page 10.
References
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External links
''Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi''
a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Giovanni Battista Pozzi (see index)
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Milan
17th-century births
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
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