Baldassare Aloisi

Aloisi was born at Bologna, the relative and pupil of Ludovico Carracci.

As his compositions were not meeting with sufficient encouragement, he went to Rome, and gave himself up to portrait painting.

[1] One of his finest pictures is The Visitation, in the first chapel of the church Santa Maria della Carità in Bologna.

For the churches he also painted some pictures, the principal one of which was the great altar-piece representing The Coronation of the Virgin, in the Gesù e Maria.

[3] Bartsch et al.'s Le peintre graveur lists over fifty of his works.