Giovanni Battista Sangiorgi (1765–1837) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period He was born in

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 ...

. After a formal classic education, he trained under his uncle, Nicola Toselli, then under

Ubaldo Gandolfi Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728–1781) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, mainly active in and near Bologna. Biography He was born in San Matteo della Decima and enrolled by the age of 17 at the Clementine Academy, where he apprenticed w ...

and the

Accademia Clementina The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...

. At the Academy, he won a number of prizes painting nude figures. He was active in the decoration of various palaces in Bologna, including the

Palazzo Hercolani Palazzo Hercolani is a palace in Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. There is also a Palazzo Hercolani in Bologna. Until 1844 it belonged to the ancient Hercolani Family of Forlì. The last Hercolani heir living in the palace was Fabrizio Gaddi Herco ...

, Palazzo Gnudi, casa Buratti, and

Palazzo Ranuzzi The Palazzo Ranuzzi, also called Palazzo Baciocchi or Palazzo Ruini, is a Baroque style palace in central Bologna. It is now houses the Court of Appeals of Bologna. The palace was built in the late-1500s, commissioned by the academic and lawyer Ca ...

. He painted a number of monuments for the

Certosa of Bologna The Certosa di Bologna is a former Carthusian monastery (or charterhouse) in Bologna, northern Italy, which was founded in 1334 and suppressed in 1797. In 1801 it became the city's Monumental Cemetery which would be much praised by Byron and other ...

, of which those of Brunetti and Tanari, remain. He worked in restorations and engravings of famous works. He helped restore '' The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia'' by Raphael now at the

Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna The National Art Gallery of Bologna (''Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna'') is a museum in Bologna, Italy. It is located in the former Saint Ignatius Jesuit novitiate of the city's University district, and inside the same building that houses the ...

. He was professor of figure at the University and then the

Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...

. He was awarded honorary membership in the Roman

Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...

.Museo Virtuale of the Certosa of Bologna
, entry by Antonella Mampieri. Frulli died in Bologna.

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1765 births 1837 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists Italian neoclassical painters Painters from Bologna Academic staff of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub