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(likewise called Il Borgognone), a painter, brother of the foregoing, was born at St. Hippolyte, in 1628, and was instructed, while young, in the school of Pietro da Cortona, at Rome. His best works are in that city. They are, The Crucifixion, Joshua's Battle, a Madonna, with several Saints. He died at Rome in 1679. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Bryan, Dict. of Painters and Engravers, s.v.