Giovanni Battista Pozzi

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Giovanni Battista Pozzi was an Italian painter, born at Milan towards the end of the 17th century. He decorated a large number of buildings in the Piedmont, including San Cristoforo at Vercelli.

A pupil of Raffaellino da Reggio, he flourished briefly under the Papacy of Sixtus V. He painted a Christ of the Angels for the church of the Gesu, Rome.[1]

References[edit]

  • Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 317.
  1. ^ Biografia universale antica e moderna ossia Storia per alfabeto, Compiled in France by a Society, Volume 46, Presso Giovanni Batista Missiaglia, Tipografia di G. Molinari, 1828, page 10.

External links[edit]

  • Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Giovanni Battista Pozzi (see index)