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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. The following members have entries:
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