Giovanni Battista Belloti (1667 – January 23, 1730) was an Italian painter of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

style, active mainly in

Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city municipality in the region and the second largest in nor ...

Biography

He studied for three years with Andrea Voltolini in Verona, then moved to Venice to work in the studio of

Antonio Bellucci Antonio Bellucci (19 February 1654 – 29 August 1726) was an Italian soldier who became a painter of the Rococo period and was best known for his work in England, Germany, and Austria. He was one of the many Venetian-trained artists of his time ...

. He painted numerous altarpieces in Verona for the churches of San Gregorio, San Francesco di Paolo, San Niccolò, and for the San Francesco chapel of San Fermo Maggiore. In the Collegio de' Nodari he frescoed a lunette with an Adoration of the Magi, as well as ovals with stories of the Old and New Testament, and miracles of San Zeno Bishop. He was buried in Santa Maria della Scala.Le vite dei pittori, scultori e architetti veronesi
by Diego Zannandreis, page 319-320. Among his pupils is Giovanni Battista Zannoni. It is unclear if he is related to

Bernardo Bellotto Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2 or 30 January 172117 November 1780), was an Italian urban landscape painter or ''vedutista'', and printmaker in etching famous for his ''vedute'' of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was th ...

of Venice.

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1667 births 1730 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Verona 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub