Giovanni Battista Cavazza was an Italian painter and
engraver, who was born at
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
about the year 1620. He studied under
Cavedone and
Guido, and painted some pictures for public buildings at Bologna. The church of the Nunziata has frescoes of saints painted by him. He engraved the following plates from his own designs:
*''The Crucifixion''.
*''The Resurrection''.
*''The Death of St. Joseph''.
*''The Assumption of the Virgin''.
References
* Bryan, Michael. 1903. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. London England: G. Bell and Sons.
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Artists from Bologna
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian engravers
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