- Pietro Facchetti
Pietro Facchetti (
1539 -27 February ,1613 ) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance , mainly active inRome .Born to a poor family in
Mantua . Facchetti initially trained withLorenzo Costa , but then moved toRome and joined the studio ofScipione da Gaeta , where he gained fame as aportrait painter .References
*cite book | first= Dottore Pasquale|last= Coddè, Segretario dell Belle Arti in Mantova| year=1837| title= Memorie Biografiche, poste in forma di Dizionario die Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed Incisori Mantovani| editor = Aumentate e scritte Dottore Fisico, Luigi Coddè| pages= pages 61-62| publisher= Presso i Fratelli Negretti, Mantua; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on October 16, 2006| id= | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0BAGAAAAQAAJ&dq=Pasquale+Codd%C3%A8| authorlink=
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