Gioacchino assereto wikipedia
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Paintings from the Italian Baroque period, 16.03.2007, Press Information, Alte Galerie at Landesmuseum Joanneum, Schloss Eggenberg, Eggenberger Allee 90, A-8020 Graz(Reusing this file)
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Death of Cato
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date QS:P571,+1640-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Level Palazzo Bianco, second floor (Details of level on Google Art Project) room Palazzo Bianco, second floor, room 12 (Details of room on Google Art Project)
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Gioacchino Assereto
Italian painter
Gioacchino Assereto (1600 – 28 June 1649) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period and one of the most prominent history painters active in Genoa in the first half of the 17th century.
Life
[edit]He initially apprenticed at age 12 with Luciano Borzone and from circa 1614 in the studio of Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo.[1] He attended the Academy of the Nude (painting from nude models) instituted by Giancarlo Doria.[2]
He was active in Genoa. In 1639 Assereto he travelled to Rome where he visited the studios of various painters. He likely met Genoese artists working in Rome, such as Luca Saltarello, Giovanni Maria Bottalla, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Giovanni Andrea Podestà. His stay in Rome was important as it brought him in contact with the developing realism of the followers of Caravaggio.
In the 1640s Assereto was active as a fresco painter. The artist was very successful in Genoa and in his late