Giovanni Battista Salvi (Il Sassoferrato) was an Italian Baroque painter best known for his devotional images of Catholic themes. His smoothly rendered and idealized works were influenced by the paintings of various prominent artists of the Baroque and Renaissance era, particularly Guido Reni, Albrecht Dürer, and Raphaël. Born on August 25, 1609 in Sassoferrato, Italy, he was an apprenticed to his father, the painter Tarquion Salvi, at a young age. He later moved to Rome to start his career, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. Today, Salvi’s works are in the collections of the most prominent institutions worldwide, notably the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Rikjsmuseum in Amsterdam, the...