Emilio Taruffi was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period.

He was a fellow-pupil with Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani was an Italian painter of the Bolognese and of the Forlivese school, active in the Baroque period....

 in the studio of Francesco Albani

Francesco Albani

Francesco Albani or Albano was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early years in Bologna:Born 1578 in Bologna, his father was a silk merchant who intended to instruct his son in the same trade; but by age twelve, Albani became an apprentice under the competent mannerist painter Denis Calvaert, where he...

, then a pupil of the former. Active first at
Bologna

Bologna

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, in decorating the public hall, and next at Rome, where he resided three years, sometimes employed at Sant' Andrea della Valle and in private houses. He also conducted some altar-pieces, and that of San Pier Celestino, at the church of that name, yields to few of the same period. He was apparently assassinated.