Giovanni Raffaele Badaracco (1648–1717) 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 born in Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

, son and pupil of the painter Giuseppe Badaracco

Giuseppe Badaracco

Giuseppe Badaracco , also called “Il Sordo” , was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa, in Liguria and in Corse....

. After studying some time under his father he went to Rome

Rome

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, and entered the school of Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...

. He also painted in Naples

Naples

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 and Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

, then returned to Genoa.

Among his main paintings the two large pictures that depict St. Bruno

Bruno of Cologne

Saint Bruno of Cologne , the founder of the Carthusian Order, personally founded the order's first two communities...

 in the church of San Bartolomeo at Certosa, in the Genoese district of Rivarolo

Rivarolo Ligure

Rivarolo Ligure is a quarter in the north side of the city of Genoa, and is part of the Municipality Valpolcevera of Genoa....

, the paintings in the Oratory of Assunta, nearby the church of Coronata, in the district of Cornigliano, considered his masterpiece

Masterpiece

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 and those in the church of Nostra Signora del Carmine in Genoa, that depict “Carmelites

Carmelites

The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Carmelites is a Catholic religious order perhaps founded in the 12th century on Mount Carmel, hence its name. However, historical records about its origin remain uncertain...

 Saints” and “Virgin Mother and St. John

John the Apostle

John the Apostle, John the Apostle, John the Apostle, (Aramaic Yoħanna, (c. 6 - c. 100) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of James, another of the Twelve Apostles...

”.