Pietro Facchetti

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Pietro Facchetti (1539 – 27 February 1613) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, mainly active in Rome.

Born to a poor family in Mantua. Facchetti initially trained with Lorenzo Costa the younger, but then moved to Rome and joined the studio of Scipione da Gaeta, where he gained fame as a portrait painter.

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  • {{cite book | first= Dottore Pasquale|last= Coddè, Segretario dell Belle Arti in Mantova| year=1837| title= Memorie Biografiche, poste in forma di Dizionario die Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed Incisori Mantovani| editor = Aumentate e scritte Dottore Fisico, Luigi Coddè| pages= 61–62| publisher= Presso i Fratelli Negretti |location=Mantua | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0BAGAAAAQAAJ&q=Pasquale+Codd%C3%A8}}

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Category:Artists from the Papal States

Category:16th-century Italian painters

Category:Italian male painters

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Category:Italian Renaissance painters

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