Giovanni Baglione

Giovanni Baglione (1566 - 1643) was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. He is best remembered for his acrimonious and damaging involvement with the slightly younger artist Caravaggio and his important collection of biographies of the other artists working in Rome in his lifetime, although there are many works of his in Roman churches and galleries and elsewhere. He was mainly a painter of religious subjects, reflecting the Roman market, but also painted several mythological subjects.