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Balassi, Mario

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

an Italian painter, was born at Florence in 1604; and studied first under Jacopo Ligozzi, and afterwards with Roseli. He copied Raphael's Transfiguration for Taddeo Barberini, who placed it in the Church of the Conception at Rome. He painted for several other churches in Rome. He died in 1667.