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Gennaro Greco (1663-1714) also known as Il Mascacotta was an Italian veduta painter. Greco was born and worked in Naples. His son Vincenzo Greco also became a painter. Greco was inspired to paint veduta after studying works by Andrea Pozzo. He died after a fall from scafolding while working on a ceiling fresco in Nola in 1714. He is described by Dalbono as a painter of views of mutilated ruins (vedute di mutilato anticaglie).