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Giovanni Battista Salvi, also known as "Il Sassoferrato", was born in Sassoferrato on 25 August 1609. Son of Tarquinio, he learned painting techniques in his father's workshop. Read the full biography

Giovanni Battista Salvi, also known as "Il Sassoferrato", was born in Sassoferrato on 25 August 1609. Son of Tarquinio, he learned painting techniques in his father's workshop. We do not know much about Giovanni's artistic education, apart from the period in which he worked in the workshop of Domenichino from Bologna, who in turn had been a pupil of Annibale Carracci. Giovanni was also influenced by other masters such as Francesco Albani, Guido Reni, Albrecht Dürer, Guercino and above all by Raphael. Initially, it seems that his work was focused on the reproduction of devotional religious images, in fact his Madonnas are famous. His works, in addition to the attention to detail, are characterized by a great chromatic intensity and the preciousness of the details, which sometimes border on the affected.
There are more than three hundred works by Sassoferrato in museums around the world, including most of his remaining drawings, preserved in the Royal collection of Windsor Castle, England. Giovanni Battista Salvi died on 8 August 1685.