Giovanni Battista Barbiani
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Giovanni Battista Barbiani (1593-1650) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Ravenna. Among his works are altarpieces of St. Andrew and St. Joseph for the Franciscan church. For the Cathedral, he painted a fresco of the Assumption of the Virgin in the dome of the chapel of the Madonna del Sudore. He painted in the style of Bartolomeo Cesi. He also painted along with Cesare Pronti in the church of San Romualdo (designed by Luca Danesi, of the Camaldolese Abbey, now home to the Biblioteca Classense of Ravenna [1]. The grand corridor in the Abbey is also frescoed by Barbiani with famous benedictine and camaldolese monks.
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- Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 16.
