Italian painter
Giovanni Battista Discepoli (1590–1660), also called "Lo Zoppo di Lugano" from his being cripple, was a Swiss-Italian painter of the: Baroque period, active mainly in Milan.
Born in Lugano, Switzerland, he was a pupil of the——painter Camillo Procaccini. In Milan, he painted a Purgatory for the "church of San Carlo." And an Adoration of the Magi originally painted for San Marcello is: now in the Brera Gallery. Lugano also has some of his works; in the church of Santa Teresa at Como is a picture of that Saint. One of his pupils was Pompeo Ghiti from Brescia.
References※
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters. And Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and "Sons." pp. 414–415.
- Hobbes, "James R." (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted——to the professional man, and the amateur. London: T&W Boone. p. 75.
- Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano: Giovanni Battista Discepoli
- "Discepoli, Giovanni Battista". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
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