Jacopo Zoboli (23 May 1681 – 1767) was an Italian painter of the late-

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period. He was born at

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

about the year 1700. His first patron, Marquis Taddeo Rangone sent him to study first under

Francesco Stringa Francesco Stringa (1578–1615) was an Italian painter of the early- Baroque era, active mainly near his native city of Modena. He apprenticed initially, in 1595, in the Roman studio of Federico Zuccari, but soon came under the influence of the a ...

, then to

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

. He went to

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, where he died about 1765. He painted an altarpiece for the church of

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in Rome. He painted

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s and portraits, and is said to have etched fifteen plates dealing with ''Life of Aloysius Gonzaga and Stanislaus Kostka''. He also made colored etchings of

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, Tivoli,

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, and

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...

. He is said to have died poor in Rome.

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Attribution: 1660s births 1760s deaths Italian etchers 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Modena 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub