Giovanni Battista Zelotti

Giovanni Battista Zelotti (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ddzeˈlɔtti]; 1526 – 28 August 1578) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, active in Venice and her mainland territories.

He appears to have been born in Verona,[1] then part of the Venetian mainland, and trained with Antonio Badile and Domenico Riccio, as well as perhaps Titian.

He was a contemporary of Paolo Veronese and shared work in the Villa Soranza near Castelfranco (1551) and at Venice: the ceiling of the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci in the Doge's Palace (1553-4); the Biblioteca Marciana (1556-7), and the Palazzo Trevisan (1557) on Murano.

With the painter Giovanni Antonio Fasolo he worked also at Villa Caldogno (about 1570) and at Palazzo Porto Colleoni Thiene.

In the 1570s he decorated the Castello del Catajo of the Obizzi family at Battaglia Terme with 40 frescoes.