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Gaetano Sabatini (1703–1734; or 1731), also known as ''il Mutarolo'' (or ''Il Mutolo'') due to his deaf-mutism, was an Italian
draftsman A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman, drafting technician, or CAD technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawi ...
and
Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...
painter. Born in
Bologna Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...
to a domestic worker for the aristocratic Marescalchi family, he perfected his style first in
drawing Drawing is a Visual arts, visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to make a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, some ...
, then in painting. The painter Francesco Monti mentored him as a painter. He painted an altarpiece of the church of the Celestine order in Bologna. He died young in Bologna.Felsina pittrice, vite de' pittori bolognesi: tomo terzo
by Luigi Crespi page 320. The
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has a self-portrait by Sabatini.


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Gaetano Sabatini
Biography, Getty Museum. 1703 births 1731 deaths 1734 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Bologna Italian draughtsmen Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub