Pietro Facchetti

Place: Mantua

Born: 1539

Death: 1613

Biography:

Pietro Facchetti was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, mainly active in Rome.
Born to a poor family in Mantua. Facchetti initially trained with Lorenzo Costa the younger, but then moved to Rome and joined the studio of Scipione da Gaeta, where he gained fame as a portrait painter.

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