Giovanni Battista Tortiroli (1621-1651) 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. He was born in

Cremona Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' ( Po Valley). It is the capital of th ...

. He was a pupil of the Mannerist painter,

Andrea Mainardi Andrea Mainardi, also known as ''il Chiaveghino'', (active 1590–1613) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active in Cremona. Mainardi and his nephew Marcantonio, were pupils of Bernardino Campi in Cremona. He painted the ...

, but them moved to worked both in

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and in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, and there altering his style. He died at the age of thirty. A pupil of Tortiroli was Giovanni Battista Lazzaroni.Biografia degli artisti
by Filippo de Boni, page 542.

References

* 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Cremona Italian Baroque painters 1651 deaths 1621 births {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub