Giovanni Battista Pozzi was an Italian painter, born at

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towards the end of the 17th century. He decorated a large number of buildings in the

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, including ''San Cristoforo'' at

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. A pupil of

Raffaellino da Reggio Raffaele Motta (1550 – 1578), known as Raffaellino da Reggio, was an Italian Mannerist style painter from Reggio Emilia, who mainly worked in Rome. He assimilated the style of Taddeo Zuccari and also developed more personal traits. In the las ...

, he flourished briefly under the Papacy of Sixtus V. He painted a ''Christ of the Angels'' for the church of the Gesu, Rome.Biografia universale antica e moderna ossia Storia per alfabeto
Compiled in France by a Society, Volume 46, Presso Giovanni Batista Missiaglia, Tipografia di G. Molinari, 1828, page 10.

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''Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi''
a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Giovanni Battista Pozzi (see index) 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Milan 17th-century births Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub