Giovanni Battista Volpati [SEP] date of birth
Giovanni Battista Volpati
Giovanni Battista Volpati (March 7, 1633 – 1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Bassano. He was the author of some treatises on the fine arts. The most important of these is "La Verità Pittoresca".
His father tried to make him follow a profession as a clergy man. He abandoned this to dedicate himself to designa and art. He studied engraving with Marco Sadeler in Venice.
servant and diarist (d. 1703)
- February 26 – Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow and last Administrator of Ratzeburg (d. 1695)
- March 1 – Yi Seo-woo, Korean scholar (d. 1709)
- March 7 – Giovanni Battista Volpati, Italian painter (d. 1706)
- March 12 – Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet, of Godstone, English noble (d. 1671)
- March 17 – Alessandro Marchetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1714)
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