Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli

When he was three, his father the painter Giovanni Battista Caccioli died, and from a very early age he was taught to paint by his tutors.

He later apprenticed with the brothers Giuseppe and Antonio Rolli who at the time were painting the ceiling of San Paolo Maggiore church in Bologna.

[2] He painted Mario Scoto bringing back Pope Leo III to his Holy See in Rome and Galeazzo e Taddeo Marescotti freeing Annibale Bentivogli from the Rocca di Varano.

After three years spent at the service of Prince Louis of Baden in Germany together with Pietro Francesco Farina, he returned to Bologna where he painted the facade of the Foro della Mercanzia, a chapel dell'arte de'falegnami, a chapel dell'arte de'notai and the facade over the altar of San Gabriello church.

At first he depicted the four parts of the world in four corners, then he continued to paint the whole cupola, the choir and finally the two large lateral chapels.