biography
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Batoni or Battoni, Pompeo Girolamo
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pronunciation:
[batohnee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1708–87)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Lucca, N Italy. He trained and settled in Rome. From 1735 he received many important commissions for religious, mythological, and historical paintings, but it is for his portraits, particularly of distinguished foreign visitors, that he is most famous. |
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