Giovanni Paolo Cervetto (died 1657) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque period. He was very active in his native
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...
. He was pupil of
Valerio Castelli, and his works were difficult to separate from his master.
A Dictionary of Painters from the Revival of the Art to the Present Period
By Matthew Pilkington, page 110. He died young, likely from the Bubonic Plague that afflicted Genoa in 1657.
References
Year of birth unknown
1657 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Genoa
Italian Baroque painters
17th-century deaths from plague (disease)
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