Giovan Battista Langetti

Giovan Battista Langetti, The Suicide of Catão

Giovanni Battista Langetti (1625–1676), also known as Giambattista Langetti, was an Italian late-Baroque painter. He was active in his native Genoa, then Rome, and finally for the longest period in Venice.

He first trained with Assereto, then Pietro da Cortona, but afterwards studied under Giovanni Francesco Cassana, appeared in Venice by the 1650s where he worked in a striking Caravaggesque style. He is thought to have influenced Johann Karl Loth and Antonio Zanchi. He painted many historical busts for private patrons in the Venetian territory and in Lombardy. He died at Venice in 1676.

References

• Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. 1980. Penguin Books. p. 346. ISBN 9780140561166.
• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. II L-Z). London: George Bell and Sons. p. 18. Retrieved 11 November 2013.(Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007)