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Giuseppe Ghislandi

1655-1743

Called both Fra Vittore, the name he assumed when he joined a religious order, and Fra Galgario from the name of the monastery in which he lived as a lay brother. Bergamask-Venetian School. Born 1655; died 1743. His style was indebted to Bombelli, whose pupil and assistant he was in Venice, probably from 1693. About a decade later he returned to Bergamo to take up residence in the Galgario monastery and to continue his active career as portrait painter. His sitters are presented realistically and yet as typical of their time and milieu.
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