Giovanni Battista Passeri (c. 1610 – 22 April 1679) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was a pupil of the painter

Domenichino Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters. Life Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a sho ...

, as the latter worked at

Frascati Frascati () is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is located south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills close to the ancient city of Tusculum. Frascati is closely associated wit ...

. He painted genre and still life paintings.

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Born in Rome, Passeri is also known for his volume of artists' biographies, or ''Lives of the painters sculptors, and architects who practiced in Rome, and died between 1641 and 1673'', published in 1773. Passeri became director or president of the

Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fi ...

in Rome, which once had his portrait of

, now in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...

. He was also the author of ''Il silenzio, discorso sopra la pittura'' (Rome, 1670) and ''La fantasia, discorso accademico'' (Rome, 1673). These publications are based on Passeri's lectures on art theory, which he delivered between 1662/3 and 1675 at the Accademia di S Luca. Another lecture remained unpublished.Dieter Graf. "Passeri." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 24 Feb. 2016. He died in 1679. His nephew

Giuseppe Passeri Giuseppe Passeri (12 March 1654 – 2 November 1714) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native city of Rome. Born the nephew of the painter Giovanni Battista Passeri, Giuseppe trained in the studio of Carlo Maratta. A ...

was a pupil of

Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...

Artists covered in Passeri's ''Vite de pittori, scultori ed architetti''

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1610s births 1679 deaths Painters from Rome 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Italian art historians Italian still life painters Artist authors Biographers of artists {{Italy-art-historian-stub

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Artists covered in Passeri's ''Vite de pittori, scultori ed architetti''

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