San Pietro in Vincoli - ceiling, Rome retouched

Giovanni Battista Parodi (1674–1730) was an Italian painter, born in

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...

. He belonged to an Italian family of artists. His father was the sculptor and wood-carver

Filippo Parodi Filippo Parodi (1630 – 22 July 1702) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period, "Genoa's first and greatest native Baroque sculptor". Biography Born in Genoa into a family of sculptors, Parodi developed his facility with wood, then tr ...

(1630–1702). His brother was

Domenico Parodi Domenico Parodi (1672 – 19 December 1742, in Genoa) was an Italian painter, as well as a sculptor and architect, of the late-Baroque. He was the son of the famous Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi and the older brother of the Baroque painter Gi ...

(1672–1742), a painter, sculptor and architect. In Genoa his

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

es are to be seen in the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena, but he spent most of career in Milan and Bergamo. He added church ceilings in Milan, contributed to the decoration of churches in

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

and to the Palazzo Mazzoleni in Bibbiena. In Rome, his sole prominent public commission was for the fresco of the ceiling of San Pietro in Vincoli in 1706 and the vault medallions (c. 1706) in Santa Maria dell’Orto, Rome.

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1674 births 1730 deaths Painters from Genoa 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub