Giacomo Ceruti
Italian painter (1698-1767) · Artists · Died at 68
Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti was an Italian late Baroque painter, active in Northern Italy. He painted a variety of subjects, including portraits, religious and mythological scenes and still lifes.
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He is best known as a painter of large-scale genre scenes in which beggars, paupers, pilgrims, old people and simple craftsmen are depicted realistically in portrait form or engaged in their daily activities. This subject matter, which he treated with empathy, earned him the nickname Pitocchetto.
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Artists
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Artist
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1698 to 1767 · aged 68
