[1] He was born in Casalmaggiore, and there a pupil of the Abbot Francesco Chiozzi.
Zanetti worked in the Ducal Villa at Sala, belonging to Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma, wife of Ferdinand, Duke of Parma.
[2] Zanetti also painted the entry to the library in the Convent of San Francesco.
[3] It is not clear that he is related to either Antonio Maria Zanetti the elder or the younger, the famed Venetian engraver and art historian respectively.
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