Giovanni Battista Vernici

Giovanni Battista Vernici (died 1617) was an Italian painter.

He was born in Bologna. He was a pupil in the school of the Carracci. He painted religious and historical pictures for the churches and public buildings of Pesaro and Urbino, particularly in the latter city, where he was appointed principal painter to the Duke, in whose service he died.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 660.