Giovanni Battista Tortiroli

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

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.

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