Giovanni Battista Lama
Illustration — Lot and his daughters Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Agen Giovanni Battista Lama (1673–1748) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Naples. He primarily painted historical canvases. Along with Paolo de Matteis, he was pupil to the painter Luca Giordano.
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Giovanni Battista Lama

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- 1673. · Naples.
- Died
- 1748. · Naples.
- Occupation
- painter.
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Illustration — Lot and his daughters Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Agen Giovanni Battista Lama (1673–1748) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Naples. He primarily painted historical canvases. Along with Paolo de Matteis, he was pupil to the painter Luca Giordano.
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Born at Naples in 1673, died in Naples in 1748.
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Giovanni Battista Lama was born on 1 January 1673.
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Giovanni Battista Lama died on 1 January 1748.
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- 1.De Dominici (1742), pp. 451 y 545.
- 2.Faraglia, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
- 3.De Dominici (1742), p. 451.
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