Mario Balassi
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Mario Balassi (1604-1667) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Florence and Rome.
He was trained by Domenico Passignano, and accompanied him to Rome. He painted a Transfiguration (copy of Raphael) now found in the church of the Cappuccini of Rome.
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- Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 14.
