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Adolfi, Giacomo

an Italian painter, brother of the preceding, was born at Bergamo in 1682. He painted history with success, and also painted sacred subjects for the churches, convents, and monasteries of Bergamo. The Crowning of the Virgin, in the Church of the Monastery del Paradiso, and the Adoration of the Magi, in the Church of S. Alessandro della Croce, are considered his best productions. He died in 1741.