Giovanni Battista Tortiroli

Giovanni Battista Tortiroli (1621-1651) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.[1][2]

The Massacre of the Innocents

He was born in Cremona. He was a pupil of the Mannerist painter, Andrea Mainardi, but them moved to worked both in Rome and in Naples, and there altering his style. He died at the age of thirty. A pupil of Tortiroli was Giovanni Battista Lazzaroni.[3]

References
  • 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. 582.
  1. La pittura cremonese, by Principe Bartolommeo de Soresina Vidoni, page 34.
  2. Notizie Istoriche De Pittori, Scultori, Ed Architetti Cremonesi, Volume 2, by Giambattista Zaist, Antonio M. Panni, page 78.
  3. Biografia degli artisti by Filippo de Boni, page 542.


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