Pietro Facchetti (1539 – 27 February 1613) was an Italian painter of the late

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, mainly active in

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. Born to a poor family in

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. Facchetti initially trained with Lorenzo Costa the younger, but then moved to Rome and joined the studio of Scipione da Gaeta, where he gained fame as a

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* 1539 births 1613 deaths Artists from the Papal States 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub