Giovan Battista Nani [SEP] occupation
Giovan Battista Nani
Giovan Battista Nani (30 August 1616, Venice – 5 November 1678, Venice), in French "Jean Baptiste Felix Gaspard Nani", was a Venetian ambassador, librarian, archivist, amateur botanist and historian, born into a patrician family.
For 25 years (1643–68) Battista was the Republic of Venice's ambassador to France, as well as making several diplomatic missions into Germany. He later became Procurator of St Mark's. He wrote a history of the Republic of Venice in his free
Giovan Battista Ruoppolo
Giovan Battista Ruoppolo (1629–1693) was a Neapolitan painter from the Baroque era, notable for painting still-lifes. He was a disciple of Paolo Porpora (1617–1673), a contemporary of Salvatore Rosa. Additional Porpora pupils who formed a school of still-life painters in Naples were Giovan Battista, Giuseppe Recco, and Ruoppolo's brother of Giuseppe Ruoppolo. One of his pupils was Onofrio Loth. In addition, he influenced Andrea Belvedere and Giacomo Nani. The initials of Ruoppolo match those of the younger