Gaetano Lapis

Gaetano Lapis (1704 – 1 April 1776) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.

Communion of the Apostles in the Cagli Cathedral
St Michael Archange in San Giuseppe, Cagli

Biography

He was born in Cagli and trained under Sebastiano Conca. He painted a Birth of Venus for the ceiling of the Palazzo Borghese in Rome. He painted the main altarpiece depicting St Michael Archangel for the church of San Giuseppe, Cagli.

References
  • Rosini, Giovanni (1847). Storia della Pittura Italiana esposta coi Monumenti, (Epoca Quarta: Dal Carraci all'Appiani); Volume VII. Presso Niccolò Capurro, Pisa; Original from Oxford University digitized Jan 4, 2007. pp. 86.


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