Giovanni Battista Natali

city of Piacenza,[apparent contradiction] but also Savona, Lucca, and Naples, and finally Genoa in 1736.

Oxford Art Online also lists four artists with this same name, among other Natali family members,[3] with the following descriptions: It is very likely that the 45 views mentioned under 4. above originate from a bilingual book (Latin and Italian) by Paolo Antonio Paoli, president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome (1775-1798), treating the subject of the "Remains of the Antiquities Existing in Pozzuoli, Cumae, and Baiae", published in 1768 in Naples.

This is strong evidence that Giovanni Battista Natali III (Piacentino) was also known under the name Joan.

Baptista Natali, a Latinised name no doubt, further corroborated by sources from the Library of Congress (LOC), USA[4] and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).

[5] The Metropolitan Museum of Art possesses a set of drawings by an Italian artist named Giovanni Battista Natali III [6] (Pontremoli, Tuscany, 1698 – Naples, 1765).