Giampietro Zanotti (1674–1765) was an Italian painter and art historian of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.
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He studied painting in Bologna with Lorenzo Pasinelli. In the first decade of the 18th century, he became one of the founding members of the artists' academy in Bologna [1], known as the Accademia Clementina. Among his writings was a guide to young painters: Avvertimenti per l'incamminamento di un giovane alla pittura. He also wrote a biography about the painter and friend Giovanni Gioseffo Dal Sole[2]. Giampietro's brother, Francesco Maria Zanotti, was a philosopher in Bologna. His son Eustachio Zanotti was a noted astronomer and mathematician (1709–1782). Among his pupils was Ercole Lelli, best known for his anatomic studies in wax.
Partial Anthology
edit- Zanotti, Giampietro (1739). Storia dell'Accademia Clementina di Bologna Aggregata all'Instituto delle Scienze e dell'Arti Volume One containing first and second book. Lelio dalla Volpe, Bologna.
- Zanotti, Giampietro (1739). Storia dell'Accademia Clementian di Bologna Aggregata all'Instituto delle Scienze e dell'Arti Volume Two containing first and second book. Lelio dalla Volpe, Bologna.
- Zanotti, Giampietro (1718). Didone, Tragedia. Constantino Pisarri, Bologna.
Giampietro Zanotti.
- Zanotti, Giampietro (1743). L'Ignorante Presuntuoso, Commedia. Marchionis Salsae, Bologna.
- Zanotti, Giampietro (1830). Alcune Operette. Tipografia Alvisopole, Venice.
Giampietro Zanotti.
References
editExternal links
edit- Contini, Milena (2020). "ZANOTTI CAVAZZONI, Giampietro". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 100: Vittorio Emanuele I–Zurlo (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.