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Italian painter and mosaic artist
Giovanni Battista Brughi (1660 – 1730) was an Italian painter and mosaic artist of the late-Baroque period.
Biography
He was born in Genoa, and pupil of Giovanni Battista Gaulli in Rome. He abandoned painting to become a mosaic artist.