Carlo Giuseppe Ratti

Carlo Giuseppe Ratti (1737–1795) was an Italian art biographer and painter of the late-Baroque period.

Born in Savona, he moved to Rome where he befriended Anton Raphael Mengs and Pompeo Batoni.

He added to Raffaele Soprani’s history of Genoese painters: Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti genovesi first published in 1769 in Genoa.

He was knighted by Pope Pius VI and made director of the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti.

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