Silvestro Chiesa (1623-1657) 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 mainly in his natal city of

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...

. He was a pupil of

Luciano Borzone Luciano Borzone (1590 – 12 July 1645) was an Italian people, Italian painter of a late-Mannerism, Mannerist and early-Baroque styles active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. Biography After an apprenticeship with Filippo Bertolotto, his un ...

. Died as a young man during the plague in 1657.

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* 1657 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Genoa Italian Baroque painters 17th-century deaths from plague (disease) Year of birth unknown 1623 births {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub