Giovanni Battista Colomba
He was born in Arogno in the Ticino, and was active there including in the monastery of San Floriano. He died poor in the service of the King of Poland. He was the uncle of Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo.
Giovanni Battista Colomba
Johann Rudolph Schellenberg · Johann Kaspar Füssli: Künstlerlexikon, Zürich 1810. · Public domain
- Born
- 1638 · Arogno.
- Died
- 1693 · Warsaw.
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- painter · architect · decorator · plasterer · artist
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He was born in Arogno in the Ticino, and was active there including in the monastery of San Floriano. He died poor in the service of the King of Poland. He was the uncle of Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo.
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Giovanni Battista Colomba is recorded with the occupation decorator. Recorded as painter, architect, decorator, plasterer and artist.
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1638
Giovanni Battista Colomba was born on 1 January 1638.
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Giovanni Battista Colomba died on 24 April 1693.
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