Matteo Ghidoni (c.1626 in Florence – 24 January 1689, in Padua) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Florence, he was also known as Matteo dei Pitocchi, ("Matthew of the beggars").
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Ghidoni adopted the style of the Bamboccianti ("ugly dolls"), who specialized in small-scale works featuring beggars living among the Roman ruins.[1] He painted burlesque genre paintings, similar to those of Alessandro Magnasco. He died in Padua.
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- Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 130.
- Ferdinand Šerbelj. Matteo Ghidoni (also Gidoni) Better known as Matteo de' Pitocchi, or Pitocchi (De') Matteo. Ljubljana, September 2009
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