Giovanni Ventura Borghese (died 1708) 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

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, and a pupil of

Pietro da Cortona Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...

. He assisted Cortona in

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, and completed some of his paintings after Cortona's death. He painted an ''Annunciation'' and a ''Virgin Mary crowned by Angels'' for the church of San Niccoló da Tolentino in

. He also painted scenes from the life of St. Catherine for the church of Città di Castello.

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* 1708 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Year of birth unknown Painters from Rome 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub