Giovanni Baglione was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. He is best remembered for his acrimonious involvement with the artist Caravaggio and his writings concerning the other Roman artists of his time. A pupil of Francesco Morelli, he worked mainly in Rome, initially with a late-Mannerist style. He was also nicknamed Il Sordo del Barozzo. He published two books, The nine churches of Rome and The Lives of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers . The latter is still seen as an important historical source for artists living in Rome during the... lifetime of Baglione. Among those whom he chronicled, and for whom he was notorious in his animosity towards, was Caravaggio. Baglione's Sacred love versus profane love, a response to Caravaggio's Love Victorious, shows an angel interrupting a 'meeting' between Cupid and the Devil . Ironically, Baglione was greatly influenced by the style of Caravaggio during this period of his career.
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| Birthdate: | 1566 |
| Birthplace: | Rome |
| Date of death: | December 30, 1643 |
| Religion: | Roman Catholicism |