Joseph or Giuseppe Ruffini (1690 - February 7, 1749) was painter from the

Holy Roman Empire The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. It developed in the Early Middle Ages, and lasted for a millennium ...

Biography

He was born in

Merano Merano (, ; ) or Meran () is a (municipality) in South Tyrol, Northern Italy. Generally best known for its Spa town, spa resorts, it is located within a Depression (geology), basin, surrounded by mountains standing up to Height above mean sea ...

in the

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. He trained with his father, and by 1711 he had moved to work in Munich in Bavaria. He is best known for his late-

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cycle of paintings for the

Ottobeuren Abbey Ottobeuren is a Benedictine abbey, located in Ottobeuren, near Memmingen in the Bavarian Allgäu, Germany. For part of its history Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the approximately 40 self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such ...

. He died in Bavaria.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ruffini, Joseph 1690 births 1749 deaths People from Merano 18th-century painters from the Holy Roman Empire 18th-century Italian male artists 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian emigrants to Austria