Sassoferrato, an Italian painter, whose real name was GIAMBATTISTA SALVI, was born at Sassoferrato in the March of Ancona, 11th July 1605, and worked mainly at Rome, where he died 8th April 1685. He painted Madonnas, Holy Families, an Annunciation, and an Assumption.
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