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Born near Parma. He began his career as an apprentice to the Bolognese (Rome) was one of the most coveted commissions of the early 1600s. Lanfranco was able to wrest the commission from the more meticulous painter Domenichino . Lanfranco completed for it an ''Assumption of the Virgin'', painted in ''sotto in su'' perspective by 1627. The success of this painting made him one of the favored artists of Paul V (Borghese), and was knighted as a Cavalieri Giovanni di Stefano. The is also a fresco by Giovanni Lanfranco above the monument of in Naples in 1634, he stayed there for 12 years after. He died in Rome, where his last work was apse of San Carlo Ai Catinari . Lanfranco is known for keenly competing against fellow Carracci trainee, Domenichino and ultimately accusing him of plagiarism for his painting of The ''Confession of St Jerome'', now in the Vatican. References
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