Giovanni Ghisolfi

Giovanni Ghisolfi (1623 – 7 June 1683) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Born in Milan, he initially trained with his uncle, Antonio Volpino.

At the age of 17, he traveled to Rome with his friend Antonio Busca where he painted veduta and capricci, mainly landscapes with architectural fragments and ruins.

[1][2] They would garner renewed interest with the rise of Neoclassicism in the mid-late 18th century.

He painted also in Palazzo Borromeo Arese at Cesano, Reatis' Palace in Lissone and in the fourth chapel of the Sacri Monti and covered the vaults of the Basilica of San Vittore in Varese.