Clementi Ruta

Clementi Ruta (1668–1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.

Born at Parma, he first trained with a painter by the name of Spolverini, then later in Bologna with Carlo Cignani. He moved with the latter to Naples to work in the court of Charles of Bourbon. Ruta became blind in older life. He specialized in landscapes with pen and watercolour.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves. ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 429. http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1. 

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Name	Ruta, Clementi
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Date of birth	1668
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Date of death	1787
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