Giovanni Battista Tortirole

Giovanni Battista Tortirole (active first part of the 16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Cremona. He was a pupil of Sebastiano Mainardi, and worked both in Rome and in Naples. He died in the age of thirty.

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