Giovanni Battista Monti

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Giovanni Battista Monti (-1657) was an Italian painter of portraits during the Baroque period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa. He emerged from a poor family, and was apprenticed with Luciano Borzone. He died from the plague in 1657.

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• Soprani, Raffaello (1768). in Carlo Giuseppe Ratti: Delle vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti genovesi; Tomo primo scritto da Carlo Giuseppe Ratti. Stamperia Casamara in Genoa, dalle Cinque Lampadi, con licenza de Superiori; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Feb 2, 2007, pages 257-258.