Giovanni Battista della Marca
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Giovanni Battista della Marca (1532–1587) was an Italian
Italy
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 painter of the Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 period.

He was also called Lombardelli and il Montano, and was born in Montenuovo
Ostra Vetere
Ostra Vetere is a town and comune in the region of Marche, Italy, near the modern Ostra, south-east of Senigallia.The original name of the town was Montenovo. In 1882 the name was changed in Ostra Vetere, after the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Ostra, located near the modern town along the...

. He was first a pupil of Marco da Faenza, and, according to Baglione, visited Rome during the papacy of Gregory XIII, painting in the style influenced by Raffaellino da Reggio
Raffaellino da Reggio
Raffaellino da Reggio was an Italian painter from Emilia, active in a Mannerist style mainly in Rome.Also variously named Raffaellino Motta or Rafaellino da Reggio or a variety of combinations, he was born at Codemondo near Reggio Emilia. Initially trained under the painter Lelio Orsi...

, whom he assisted in some fresco paintings in the Vatican
Vatican City
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. In the church of San Pietro Montorio he painted a series of pictures of the Life of St. Francis and in Santa Maria de'Monti, a Resurrection. There are several works of his in the churches at Montenuovo.
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