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Joseph Ruffini

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Joseph or Giuseppe Ruffini (1690 - February 7, 1749) was painter from the Holy Roman Empire.[1]

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.[2]

References

  1. ^ Thieme-Becker (Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart 29, 1935, p. 176)
  2. ^ Ambrosi, Francesco (1883). Giovanni Zippel (ed.). Scrittori ed Artisti Trentini. Tipografia Kupper-Fronza, Trento. p. 97.