Giovanni Baglione

This article is about the author. For a list of artists featured in his book The Lives, see Artists in biographies by Giovanni Baglione.

Giovanni Baglione
Engraving by Ottavio Leoni, 1625
Born1566
Rome, Papal States
Died30 December 1643(1643-12-30) (aged 77)
Rome, Papal States
Known forPainter and biographer of artists
MovementLate Mannerist, Baroque

Giovanni Baglione (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni baʎˈʎoːne]; 1566 – 30 December 1643) was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. Although a prolific painter, Baglione is best remembered for his encyclopedic collection of biographies of the other artists working in Rome during his lifetime, and particularly his acrimonious relationship with the slightly younger artist Caravaggio through his art and writings.

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