Giovanni Francesco Braccioli

Giovanni Francesco Braccioli (c. 1698 [cite book | first= James R.|last= Hobbes| year=1849| title= Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur| editor = | pages= page 68 | publisher= T&W Boone, 29 Bond Street; Digitized by Googlebooks | id= | url= http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:picture+intitle:collector's | authorlink= ] - July 16, 1762) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Ferrara.

Born in Ferrara, he first trained with Giacomo Parolini, and then with Giuseppe Maria Crespi in Bologna. He painted mainly religious altarpieces in Ferrara. On his return to Ferrara he painted for churches and convents. For the oratory of the Theatines, he painted an "Annunciation" and in the church of St. Catharine there are two pictures, one "Flagellation" and the other "Christ crowned with Thorns". He died at Ferrara. Laderchi stated that his melancholy diverged into madness.

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*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume I A-K)| editor = Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 175| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id=|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1| authorlink=
*cite book | author= Camillo Laderchi| year=1856| title= La pittura ferrarese, memorie| chapter= | editor= | others= | pages= 182| publisher= Googlebooks| id= | url= | authorlink=