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Giovanni Battista Ricci
Italian painter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giovanni Battista Ricci (Novara, circa 1537 – Rome, 1627) nicknamed Il Novara after his birth town, was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.
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