Francesco Busti (1678–1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque and Neoclassical periods.
Biography He was born in Perugia, Papal States. He was putatively a pupil of Giovanni Battista Gaulli.Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti perugini, by Lione Pascoli, page 258. One of his pupils was Nicola GiuliEnciclopedia Treccani, biography of Nicola Giuli, by Cecilia Mazzetti di Pietralata. and Baldassare Orsini, who later became an art historian.Biografia degli scrittori perugini e notizie delle opere, Volume 2, by Giovanni Battista Vermiglioli, by page 159. He painted an altarpiece of St Vincent Ferrer of the church of San Domenico in Perugia.Guida di Perugia: nel 1826, by Raffaele Gambini, page 53.
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