Giacinto Garofalini (1661–1723) was an Italian painter of the

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period, active mainly in

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. He was initially a pupil of

Donato Creti Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna. Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bol ...

, then a pupil of the painter

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. Also called ''Garofolini'' by

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. He was a professor at the

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, where he taught figure painting. He married a niece of Franceschini's wife. Together with a fellow pupil, Ferdinando Cairo, Garofalini painted the vault of the church of Sant'Antonio in

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, as well as some side altarpieces. He painted two large canvases for the Church of the Scalzi Priests. With

Luca Antonio Bistega Luca Antonio Bistega or Luca Bestega (21 October 1672 - 8 June 1732) was an Italian people, Italian painter of quadratura, active mainly in Bologna, Italy. Biography He initially trained with a little-known painter, Barlamo Castellini, but soon mo ...

, a painter of

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, he decorated the chapel of San Tommaso del Mercato. He also worked on the Sanctuary of Santa Maria Lacrimosa (to which later was added the tag ''degli Alemanni'').

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