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Italian, 17th century, male.
Born c. 1603, in Bergamo; died 1672, in Rome, in 1670 according to some sources.
Painter. Religious subjects, genre scenes, landscapes with figures, architectural views. Murals.
Viviano Codazzi lived in Rome from 1620 with a spell in Naples from 1634 to 1647. He instigated the 18th-century Venetian fashion for realistic landscape painting, and produced views of monuments with figures. He drew
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Subjects: Art ; Biographical Studies
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