Domenico Maria Canuti

From 1650 to 1660 and later in the 1670s, he was employed in Rome where he painted the quadratura decoration of the ceiling of church of Santi Domenico e Sisto with the Apotheosis of Saint Dominic.

[3] Returning to Bologna, he completed frescoes in the library of San Michele in Bosco and the Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, and in the Ducal Palace at Mantua.

He helped fresco the Palazzo Felicini in Bologna with Domenico Santi and Giacomo Alboresi.

The Bolognese sculptor Giuseppe Maria Mazza initially trained in his studio;[citation needed] another pupil was the painter Lucrezia Scarfaglia.

Among his graphic works are portraits of Ludovico, Agostino, and Annibale Carracci, The Virgin in the Clouds with Christ, and St. Francis Praying after Guido Reni.