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Giovanni Battista della Marca (1532–1587) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was also called Lombardelli and il Montano and was born in Montenuovo. He was first a pupil of Marco da Faenza and according to Baglione visited Rome during the papacy of Gregory XIII painting in the style influenced by Raffaellino da Reggio whom he assisted in some fresco paintings in the Vatican. For the church of San Pietro in Montorio he painted a series of pictures of the Life of St.