Giovanni Battista Barbiani

Giovanni Battista Barbiani (1593–1650) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Ravenna.

For the dome of the chapel of the Madonna del Sudore in the Cathedral of Ravenna, he painted a fresco of the Assumption of the Virgin.

Along with Cesare Pronti, he painted in the church of San Romualdo (designed by Luca Danesi, of the Camaldolese Abbey, now home to the Biblioteca Classense of Ravenna.

[1] The grand corridor in the Abbey is also frescoed by Barbiani with famous benedictine and camaldolese monks.

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