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Bolognini, Giovanni Battista

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an Italian painter and. engraver, was born at, Bologna in 1612, and studied under Guido. He died in 1689. He executed several pictures for the churches at Bologna, among which are the Virgin and Infant, with Magdalen and Saints, in Santa Maria Nuova;, the Dead Christ, with the Virgin, St. John, and others, in the Church of the Servi; and the Conception, in Sinta Lucia. The following are some of his principal prints: The Murder of the Innocents; Peter made dead of the Church; and the Crucifixion. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.