DETAILS
- Artist
- Giacomo Ceruti
- Date
- 1720
- Location
- Tosio Martinengo Gallery
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THE ARTIST
Giacomo Ceruti
Giacomo Ceruti, known as 'Pitocchetto,' captured the lives of beggars and the poor with unusual dignity and empathy in 18th-century Italy.
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