Carlo Giuseppe Ratti [SEP] date of death
Carlo Giuseppe Ratti
Carlo Giuseppe Ratti (1737–1795) was an Italian art biographer and painter of the late-Baroque period. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Agostino Ratti. Born in Savona, he moved to Rome where he befriended Anton Raphael Mengs and Pompeo Batoni. He died in Genoa, where he labored for many years.
He added to Raffaele Soprani’s history of Genoese painters: "Vite de' pittori, scultori ed architetti genovesi" first published in 1769 in Genoa. He painted an "Annunciation
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