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Giovanni Battista Gaulli (8 May 1639 – 2 April 1709), also known as Baciccio or Baciccia (Genoese nicknames for Giovanni Battista), was an Italian Baroque painter working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is best known for his grand illusionistic vault frescos in the Church of the Gesù in Rome.
Giovanni Battista Gaulli owes a great deal of his success on the ceiling fresco to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Several other artists were considered for the job of painting the ceiling. Gian Paolo Oliva relied on Bernini's opinion when selecting the artist for the ceiling.
Triumph of the Name of Jesus, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli, on the ceiling of the Church of the Gesu. The decorations of the vault over the nave date back to the 17th century. The fresco is the work of Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as Baciccia.
Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639–1709), 9 paintings : Apotheosis of St Ignatius, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome ; Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608–1651), 7 paintings : Granida and Daifilo, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
From 1676 to 1679 Giovanni Battista Gaulli, called Baciccio, painted an Adoration of the Name of Jesus on the ceiling of the Church of the Gesù, the Jesuit headquarters in Rome. From 1691 to 1694 Andrea Pozzo painted the Entrance of Saint Ignatius into Paradise on the nave vault of Sant'Ignazio , Rome, with theatricality and emotion.
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–1664) Giovanni Battista Monti (1657) Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639–1709) Giovanni Battista Carlone (1653–1655) Alessandro Magnasco (1667–1749) Domenico Fiasella (1589–1669) Luca Cambiaso (1527–1585) Pierre Puget (1622–1694) Valerio Castello (1624–1659) Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari (1598–1669)
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