Orazio Gentileschi - Life

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He was born in Tuscany, the son of a Florentine goldsmith caled Giovanni Battista Lomi, and was baptised at Pisa on 9 July 1563. He later took the name Gentileschi from an uncle with whom he lived after moving to Rome in either 1576 or 1578.

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