Please answer the following question: Giovanni Maria Bottala (16131644) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period. He was born in Savona. He traveled to Rome as a young boy and later became pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome. He painted in Rome Naples and Genoa. He was taken into the patronage of Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti for whom he painted a Meeting of Jacob and Esau. Bottala acquired the name of 'Rafaellino' from his great veneration for the works of Raphael. Other works are in the churches of Naples and Genoa. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Artist