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Paolo Pagani (1655 - 1716), also known as Paolo Antonio Pagani or Paolo Pagano, was an Italian Baroque Mannerism painter of the 17th century.  Even though the force of his talent is undeniable, the suggestion that Pagani moved to Venice in 1667, to have made, at the age of twelve, a series of ten aquatints from works by Giuseppe Diamantini (1621-1705) seem a bit difficult to believe.  He did however, in 1675, at the aage of twenty, painted the Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, a painting that exhibited at Palazzo Molin (currently located in the National Gallery of Spinola in Genoa) justified for him to be invited to Vienna by the Emperor Leopold I in 1690, where for the next six years he would execute numerous commissions.