Giovanni Battista Maderni (1758 -1803) was an Italian-Swiss painter.
Biography
He was born in Verona to Pietro Maderni, a sculptor native to Codilago in the Ticino. Giovanni Battista studied in the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence. Returning to Verona, he painted a canvas of Fall of the Jews in Mantua for a local church. He traveled to Paris, Berlin, London, Netherlands. He made a set of engravings on describing the art and architecture of the Teatro Tordinona in Rome.[1] He then moved to St Petersburg, and finally to Stockholm.[2]
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Descrizione delle Pitture, degl'ordini, Volta, e Sipario del Nuovo Teatro di Tordinona.
Dizionario storico raggionato degli uomini illustri del canton Ticino, by Gian Alfonso Oldelli (1807)
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