Giovanni Stefano Robatto

Giovanni Stefano Robatto (1649 – 6 October 1731) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Biography
[edit]He was born at Savona, Republic of Genoa. he studied at Rome under Carlo Maratta. He was employed painting for churches in Genoa, among his works, a St. Francis receiving the Stigmata for the church of the Cappucini. He afterwards abandoned himself to a fatal passion for gaming, and his later works are hasty and careless.
References
[edit]- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 389.