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Ghezzi.

Italian family of artists. They came from the Ascoli Piceno region of the Marches. Sebastiano Ghezzi (c. 1590–1650) was a minor painter, wood-carver and architectural engineer in Ascoli Piceno and may have been a pupil of Federico Zuccaro. His son (1) Giuseppe Ghezzi was a painter, illustrator and administrator, though best known is Giuseppe’s son, (2) Pier Leone Ghezzi, whose witty caricatures of prominent figures in Roman society have won him lasting renown.

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