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Giovanni Raffaele Badaracco (1648–1717) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Genoa son and pupil of the painter Giuseppe Badaracco. After studying some time under his father he went to Rome and entered the school of Carlo Maratta. He also painted in Naples and Venice then returned to Genoa.Among his main paintings the two large pictures that depict St.