Giovanni Zanardi

Giovanni Zanardi (1700 in Bologna – 1769) was an Italian painter of quadratura during the late Baroque period.

He traveled to Malta to paint the church of San Giovanni Battista, Bologna.

[1] With the figure painter Coletti, he helped decorate the palazzo di delizia of Rivabella.

In 1723, back in Bologna, he painted with Francesco Monti the ceiling of the sacristy of the oratory of the Casa Bianchini al Lavino.

Along with Leonardo Sconzani, he painted a canvas remembering the funeral celebrations for the Senator Ranuzzi held in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bologna, in 1725.