Giovanni Agostino Ratti

Giovanni Agostino Ratti

Giovanni Agostino Ratti (1699-1755) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.

Born in Savona, and active in Genoa, he constructed scenography for the theatre, and the cabinets with lively caricatures, which he also engraved. He was clever in church paintings, as may be seen in the church of San Giovanni at Savono, where, besides other subjects of "the Baptist", there is a much praised "Decollation". He painted also in the church of Santa Teresa in Genoa; and was a follower of Benedetto Luti, whose school he had frequented when in Rome. He was also a good fresco-painter ; and I have seen his works in the choir of the Conventual church in Casale Monferrato, where he added figures to the quadratura of Giuseppe Natali. But subjects of humor were his forte. In these he had an exhaustless fancy, fertile and ever creative. Nothing can be more amusing than his masks, representing quarrels, dances, and such scenes as form the subjects of comedy. Giovanni's son, Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, was an artist and art biographer.

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*cite book| first=Luigi| last= Lanzi| year=1847| title= History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Volume III)| editor = Thomas Roscoe (translator)| pages= pages 287-288| publisher= Henry G. Bohn|location=London; Original from Oxford University, Digitized January, 2007| id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=k0sGAAAAQAAJ&dq=luigi+lanzi| authorlink=


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