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{{short description|Italian painter and engraver (fl. 1616–1649)}}
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'''Giovanni Battista Bracelli''' or '''Braccelli''' is the name of more than one [[engraver]] and painter active in central Italy in the [[Baroque]] period,{{r|grove}} between about 1616 and 1649.<ref>[[British Museum]]. [https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=131320 Giovanni Battista Bracelli (Biographical details)]. Retrieved 7 December 2015.</ref>
According to [[Filippo Baldinucci]], one Giovanni Battista Braccelli studied under [[Giovanni Battista Paggi]] ("il Paggi") and was active in [[Genova]], where he worked in the churches of {{ill|Santa Maria dei Servi, Genova|it|Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi (Genova)|lt=Santa Maria dei Servi}} and [[Santi Cosma e Damiano, Genoa|Santi Cosma e Damiano]], and where he died in 1609 at the age of 25.{{r|fil|page=419|grove}} According to [[Stefano Ticozzi]], he was born in 1584, became the most valued assistant to Paggi, and died before his twenty-fifth birthday.{{r|tic|page=208}}
A [[Duchy of Florence|Florentine]] Giovan Batista Braccelli was a pupil and collaborator of [[Jacopo da Empoli]]. He published in 1624 in [[Livorno]] a ''[https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2002rosen1345/?sp=3 Bizzarie di varie figure]'', a book of [[etching]]s with a dedication to Don [[Pietro de' Medici]] (who died in 1604).{{r|grove|trecc|biz}}
Other mentions are of a Florentine Giovanni Battista Bracelli who was a pupil of [[Giulio Parigi]], and another also known as "Brazzé" or "Il Bigio". It is not clear whether these were different people to those above.{{r|grove}}
A collection of engravings entitled ''Figure con instrumenti musicali e boscarecci'', published in Rome after 1624, also bears the name Giovanni Battista Bracelli, as does a rare ''Alfabeto figurato'' published in [[Naples]] in 1632.{{r|grove}}
==References==
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<ref name=biz>[http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rosenwald.1345.2 ''Bizzarie di varie figure/di Giovanbatista Braccelli, pittore fiorentin'']. Livorno: s.n., 1624 (copy in the [https://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/ Rare Book and Special Collections Division] at the [[Library of Congress]]).</ref>
<ref name=fil>Filippo Baldinucci (1702). [https://books.google.com/books?id=jVsGAAAAQAAJ ''Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua''] (in Italian). Firenze: Stamperìa di Giuseppe Manni.</ref>
<ref name=grove>Annamaria Negro Spina (2003). [https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T010770 Bracelli, Giovanni Battista (fl 1616–50)]. ''Grove Art Online''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{doi|10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T010770}}. {{subscription required}}.</ref>
<ref name=tic>[[Stefano Ticozzi]] (1830). [https://books.google.com/books?id=0ownAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA208 ''Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra ...'' (volume 1, in Italian).] Milano: Gaetano Schiepatti.</ref>
<ref name=trecc>[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-battista-bracelli/ Bracèlli, Giovanni Battista] (in Italian). ''Enclopedie online''. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2014.</ref>
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== Further reading ==
* Simona Sperindei, (2017). 'Nuovi documenti sul pittore ed acquafortista seicentesco Giovan Battista Braccelli'. In: ''Atti delle giornate di studi "Caravaggio e i suoi" (Monte Santa Maria Tiberina, 2016)'', a cura di Pierluigi Carofano Pisa. {{ISBN|9788869400810}}, pages 181–190.
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