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(b Bergamo, 7 Dec. 1617; d Bergamo, 16 Mar. 1677). Italian painter, the outstanding member of a dynasty of artists. Although he was an ordained priest, almost all his pictures depict arrangements of musical instruments—beautifully poised and polished works that led Rudolf Wittkower to describe him as ‘probably Italy's greatest still-life painter’.
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Text Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)