Giovanni Raffaele Badaracco (1648–1726) was an Italian painter of the

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period. He was born in

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, son and pupil of the painter Giuseppe Badaracco. After studying some time under his father he went to

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, and entered the school of

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. He also painted in

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and

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, then returned to Genoa. Among his main paintings the two large pictures that depict St. Bruno in the church of San Bartolomeo at Certosa, in the Genoese district of Rivarolo, the paintings in the Oratory of Assunta, nearby the church of Coronata, in the district of Cornigliano, considered his

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and those in the church of Nostra Signora del Carmine in Genoa, that depict “

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Saints” and “ Virgin Mother and St. John”.

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References

* * Clario Di Fabio, Gio.Raffaele Badaracco. Qualità e industria, in “Bollettino dei Musei Civici Genovesi”, XIV, 40–42, 1992, pp. 61–91 1648 births 1726 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Genoa Pupils of Carlo Maratta 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub