Giovanni Battista Brughi [SEP] occupation
Giovanni Battista Brughi
Giovanni Battista Brughi (1660 – 1730) was an Italian painter and mosaic artist of the late-Baroque period.
Biography.
He was born in Genoa, and pupil of Giovanni Battista Gaulli in Rome. He abandoned painting to become a mosaic artist.
18th century, Tiepolo and others continued quadratura in the grand manner. But as the High Baroque movement evolved into the more playful Rococo, the popularity of this style dwindled. In his later works, Gaulli too moved in this direction. Thus, in contrast to the grandeur of his composition at Il Gesù, we see Gaulli gradually adopting less intense colours, and more delicate compositions after 1685—all hallmarks of the Rococo.
Gaulli accumulated a large number of pupils, among them Ludovico Mazzanti, Giovanni Odazzi, and Giovanni Battista Brughi