Sentence 1: Francesco Merano ( 1619 -- 1657 ) was an active painter of the baroque , mainly Italian in Genoa , where he was born .
Sentence 2: Francesco Merano ( 1619 -- 1657 ) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period , mainly active in Genoa , where he was born .
Question: Do Sentence 1 and Sentence 2 express the same meaning? Yes or No?