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Federico Barocci
Federico Barocci
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Federico Barocci

Italian, 1528–1612
BiographyItalian miniaturist and painter who specialized in alterpieces. He worked in the Vatican for Pope Pius IV, where an attempt was made to murder him by poison. In injured health as a result, he returned to Urbino and died there.