(b Lucca, ?1612; d Rome, 1 Mar. 1650). Italian draughtsman, printmaker, and painter, born in Lucca (hence his nickname ‘Il Lucchesino’) and active mainly in Rome. He trained with Domenichino and was employed by Nicolas Poussin's patron Cassiano dal Pozzo to make antiquarian drawings, but his bizarre imagination brings him closer in spirit to his contemporaries of romantic temperament such as Castiglione and Rosa. Although he had little success as a painter and spent much of his career in poverty, he was recognized as an outstanding draughtsman and etcher. He died by drowning, and it was rumoured that he had killed himself.