Giovanni Battista Canziani (1664–1730) was an Italian painter of the Baroque style. Born in Verona and died in Rome. He studied with Andrea Voltolino and Giambettino Cignaroli in Verona. Guilty of murder, he fled from Verona to Bologna, and then to Rome where he was best known as a portraitist.
References
- Fraternita dei Laici short entry with dates and places.
- Bernasconi, Cesare (1864). Painting Studi sopra la storia della pittura italiana dei secoli xiv e xv e della scuola pittorica veronese dai medi tempi fino tutto il secolo xviii. Googlebooks. p. 369.
- Biografia degli artisti, Filippo Boni, page 183.
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- 1730 deaths
- Painters from the Republic of Venice
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