Giovanni Batista Draghi (painter)

Giovanni Batista Draghi (1657 - 1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Northern Italy.

Draghi was a scholar of Domenico Piola, active in Parma and more in Piacenza, where he died. There are many pictures by him in Piacenza, and amongst them the "Death of St. James" in the church of the Franciscans; a "St. Agnes" in the Duomo; a S. Lorenzo in the church of the same name, and the picture of "Religious Orders receiving their regulations from St. Augustin". He also painted at Busseto, in the palace Pallavicino.

References

*cite book| first=Luigi| last= Lanzi| year=1847| title= History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Volume III)| editor = Thomas Roscoe (translator)| pages= page 282| publisher= Henry G. Bohn|location=London; Original from Oxford University, Digitized January, 2007| id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=k0sGAAAAQAAJ&dq=luigi+lanzi| authorlink=