Mattia Battini (1666 – 1727) 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, active in

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Biography

He was born in

Citta di Castello ''Citta'' (Pali and Sanskrit: चित्त; pronounced ''chitta''; IAST: ''citta)'' is one of three overlapping terms used in the '' nikaya'' to refer to the mind, the others being '' manas'' and '' viññāṇa''. Each is sometimes used i ...

and studied in

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...

under the painter

Pietro Montanini Pietro Montanini (1619–1689), also called ''Petruccio Perugino'', was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Perugia and first apprenticed with the painter Ciro Ferri, then Salvator Rosa. Among his pupils in Perugia were Matt ...

. He moved to Perugia where he became a citizen.G. Mancini, page 211. In Citta di Castello, he painted the small cupola of the church of the Gesu. He painted in oil the lunettes of the church of the Benedictines. For the Confraternity of the Holy Trinity, he painted a large canvas depicting the Birth of the Virgin. He painted the ceiling of the church of Santa Caterina and painted frescoes for the church of Belvedere. He helped fresco the

Castello Bufalini The Castello Bufalini is a castle-residence outside of the town of San Giustino, Province of Perugia, in the Region of Umbria, Italy. History Built in medieval period by the Ghibelline Dotti family of Sansepolcro, it was rebuilt in the Renaissanc ...

in Perugia.

References

* * 1666 births 1727 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Umbrian painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub