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Giuseppe Passeri (12 March 1654 – 2 November 1714) was an Italian painter of the
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period, active in his native city of
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. Born the nephew of the painter
Giovanni Battista Passeri Giovanni Battista Passeri (c. 1610 – 22 April 1679) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was a pupil of the painter Domenichino, as the latter worked at Frascati. He painted genre and still life paintings. Life Born in Rome, Passeri ...
, Giuseppe trained in the studio of
Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (18 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian Baroque painter and Drawing, draughtsman, active principallly in Rome where he was the leading painter in the second half of the 17th century. He was a fresco and canvas painte ...
. Among the paintings by Giuseppe is ''St. Peter baptizes the Centurion'', transferred to mosaic; the original was moved to a church of the Conventuali in
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. Passeri painted the second chapel on the right in
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in fresco from 1700 to 1703. In the same church, he also painted the altar paintings ''Three
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s'' and ''Madonna of the Rosary''.Stefan Albl, ''Passeri, Giuseppe'', in: ''
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'', vol. 94, de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, p. 400.


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Giuseppe Passeri (Biographical details)
''The British Museum'' 1654 births 1714 deaths Painters from Rome 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Pupils of Carlo Maratta 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub