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Giovanni Cadioli

Italian painter


Italian painter

FieldValue
nameGiovanni Cadioli
imageRitratto di Giovanni Antonio Cadioli.JPG
birth_datearound 1710
birth_placeMantua
death_date10 September 1767
death_placeMantua
nationalityItalian
known_forPainting and Architecture
trainingGiovanni Canti
movementBaroque

Giovanni Cadioli (c. 1710 – 10 September 1767) was an Italian painter of the Baroque, active mainly in his native Mantua, Duchy of Mantua. He was also an author of a guide to artworks in this city.

Biography

He was a pupil of Giovanni Canti, along with Giuseppe Bazzani and Francesco Maria Raineri. He excelled in painting landscapes. He painted The Alms of San Guerrino both for the Church of Sant’Egidio in Mantua. In 1746, he completed a series of monochrome paintings about the ‘’Life of St Hippolytus’’ for the church of Gazoldo degli Ippoliti. In 1748 he was appointed painter and architect of the Royal Ducal Theatre of Mantua. In 1752 established the Academy of Fine Arts of Mantua, and later became its director. He painted frescoes in Abbey of San Benedetto in Polirone between 1750 and 1760. Among his pupils was Giacomo Gatti.

References

References

  1. Cadioli, Giovanni. (1763). "''Descrizione delle pitture, sculture, ed architetture: che si osservano nella citta de Mantova, e né suoi Contorni, data in luce, a comodo singolarmente de forastieri..''". Alberto Pazzoni, Regio Ducale Stampatore, Mantova.
  2. Lanzi, page 341.
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