Giovanni Ventura Borghesi (October 29, 1640 – April 13, 1708) was an Italian painter of the

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period, active mainly in Rome.

Biography

Born in Città di Castello, he was initially a pupil of the painter Giovanni Battista Pacetti (called Lo Sguazzino), but by 1665 had moved to Rome to worku under

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 lived in the parish of San Lorenzo in Lucina. After his master's death, he completed some of Cortona's unfinished work at the church of the Sapienza. He painted an ''Annunciation'' and ''Coronation of the Virgin'' for the chapel of the Santissima Annunziata in the church of

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in Rome. He also painted in Germany. In Citta di Castello, he painted a ''St Francesco Solano'' for the church of San Giovanni Battista of the Zoccolanti.Guida storico-artistica di Città di Castello
by Eugenio Mannucci, (1878), page 160.

References

* 1640 births 1708 deaths People from Città di Castello 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Umbrian painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub