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Giuseppe Orazio Capretti (1641 - 7 March 1725) was an Italian painter.


Biography

He was born in
Almè Almè (Bergamasque: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italy, Italian region Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about northwest of Bergamo. Almè borders the following municipalities: Almenno San Bart ...
in the
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. He moved to
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in 1673 to pursue training. Returning to
Lombardy The Lombardy Region (; ) is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Lombardy is ...
, he painted mainly sacred subjects. He also painted for the church of San Francesco in
Correggio Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also , , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter who was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Renaissance, who was responsible for som ...
. He died in the latter town.


References

1641 births 1725 deaths Artists from the Province of Bergamo 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub