Giacomo Coltrini (16th century) was an Italian painter, active mainly in a

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style in

Brescia Brescia (, ; ; or ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the region of Lombardy, in Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Lake Garda, Garda and Lake Iseo, Iseo. With a population of 199,949, it is the se ...

, and a military engineer for

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. He painted frescoes for the subterranean church of San Faustino Maggiore in Brescia. He died as a military engineer in

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. Titian's paternal uncle, Gregorio Vecelli, lived in Coltrini's house in Venice.''The life of Titian: with anecdotes of the distinguished persons'', Volume 2, By James Northcote, London, 1830

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coltrini, Giacomo Painters from Brescia 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Renaissance painters Italian military engineers Engineers from Brescia