Giacinto Brandi
 Giacinto Brandi (1621 – 19 January 1691) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era active mainly in Rome and Naples.Born in Poli in the Lazio he was trained in Rome in the studio of Alessandro Algardi a noted sculptor who noted that Brandi was more suited to painting. He joined the studio of Giovanni Giacomo Sementi. He traveled to Naples from 1638 and by 1647 had returned to Rome to work under Giovanni Lanfranco where Brandi befriended Mattia Preti.