Giovanni Battista Ramacciotti 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, as well as an engraver and priest, active in Siena. He was a priest of

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, who lived about the middle of the 17th century, and practised portrait and historical painting. In the Franciscan church at Siena there is a ''Nativity'' by him, and at the Uffizi in

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, a ''Birth of the Virgin''. Cornelis Bloemaert II engraved after him the portrait of a Nun, Colomba da Tofaninis.

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* 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Renaissance painters Painters from Siena 1628 births 1671 deaths {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub