Giovanni Gottardi (

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, 27 December 1733 -

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, 1812) was an

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painter, mainly of religious subjects. He was active mainly in Rome, where he was a member of the Congregazione dei Virtuosi of the

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. Some of his paintings were completed by his colleague

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. He painted ''Escape from Prison by St Peter'' for the church of Sant'Antonio Abate, Parma. He painted a ''Saints Augustine an Monica, and the Madonna of the Belt'' (1765) for the church of

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