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Italian Painter
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Male
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Birth:
1 January 1690
Death:
7 February 1749
The details
Biography
Introduction
Joseph or Giuseppe Ruffini (1690 - February, 7, 1749) was an Italian-Austrian painter, mainly active in Germany.
Biography
He was born in Merano in the Tyrol. He trained with his father, and by 1711 he had moved to work in Munich in Bavaria. He is best known for his late-Baroque cycle of paintings for the Ottobeuren Abbey. He died in Bavaria.