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2 unusual facts about Giovanni Battista


Andrea Guarneri

By the mid-1660s Andrea and Anna Maria had had two more sons, Eusebio Amati, born in 1658, and Giovanni Battista in 1666.

Baranów Sandomierski

They hired a Dutch architect, who added columns on the inside of the castle courtyard, on which there was a gallery of art by Giovanni Battista (unfortunately all the art was destroyed in two fires in 1848 and 1898).


Bartolomeo Fanfulla

Bartolomeo Fanfulla's parents, Domenico Alon and Angela Folli, gave him multiple names: Giovanni or Giovanni Battista (in honour of the Evangelical preacher), Bartolomeo (in honour of Bartolomeo Colleoni) and Tito (in honour of the great Roman emperor).


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Giovanbattista Branconio dell'Aquila

Around 1517 Raphael painted a great Visitation at the request of Marino Branconio, father of Giovanni Battista.

Giovanni Antonio Campani

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Giovanni Battista Ambrosiani

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Giovanni Battista Brevi

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Giovanni Battista Cantalicio

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Giovanni Battista Ciolina

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Giovanni Battista Conforti

Giovanni Battista Conforti (fl. 1550–1570) was an Italian composer, born either in Bologna or Parma.

Giovanni Battista Jona

Giovanni Battista Jona, originally Judah Jonah of Safed, (d.1678), was a Hebrew writer at the Vatican.

Giovanni Battista Recchi

Giovanni Battista Recchi was an Italian painter of the 17th century, a pupil of Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, and brother of Giovanni Paolo Recchi.

Giovanni Ignoffo

Giovanni Battista Ignoffo (born April 3, 1977 in Monreale) is an Italian professional football player who currently plays for Siracusa.

Giovanni Paolo Cavagna

He painted a Coronation of the Virgin for San Giovanni Battista in Casnigo.

Judica-Cordiglia brothers

Achille (b.Turin, 1933) and his brother Giovanni Battista (b.Erba, 1939) set up their own experimental listening station just outside of Turin in the late 1950s.

Lo Spagna

The apse of the church of San Giovanni Battista in the small village of Eggi contains a fresco completed by a hand from Lo Spagna’s studio working from a drawing by the artist.

Perseus Freeing Andromeda

The painting is mentioned in 1568 by Giorgio Vasari, who states that it was commissioned by Filippo Strozzi the Elder, and gifted by Giovanni Battista Strozzi to a member of Cosimo de' Medici's personnel.

Piranesi

Francesco Piranesi (1756 or 1758–1810), Italian engraver and architect, son of Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Puccio di Simone

Vinci, Italy: Church of Saint Giovanni Battista and Saint Ansano (Saint Ansano and two angels)

Rizza manifold

A tribute to Rizza by his former master Enzo Martinelli: an English translation of the title reads as:-"Homage to Giovanni Battista Rizza on his 70th birthday".

San Giovanni Battista

San Giovanni Battista is the Italian translation of Saint John the Baptist.

William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster

He adorned the whole with part of the Arundel marbles which he had purchased and which his son had actually the temerity to attempt to restore with the assistance of the Italian sculptor Giovanni Battista Guelfi, 'a scholar of Camillo Rusconi.

Żabbar Sanctuary Museum

The paintings include works by Rocco Buhagiar, Gian Nicola Buhagiar, Rafel Bonnici Cali, Michele Busuttil, Tousaint Busuttil, Giuseppe Calì, Giuseppe Maria Caruana, Giovanni Battista Conti, Giuseppe D'Arena, Stefano Erardi, Rafael Gagliardi, Tommaso Madiona, Mattia Preti, Italo Horatio Serge, Filippo Venuti and Francesco Zahra.