Artist
Giovan Battista Cimaroli
Salò, 1687 – Venice, 1771
Born in Salò, near Brescia, in 1687 (he was baptized on 12 December), Cimaroli was one of the foremost painters of pastoral landscapes in the Veneto in the eighteenth century. He was a pupil of Antonio Aureggio in Brescia and subsequently studied in Bologna with the landscape painter Antonio Calza1. Around 1713, he moved to Venice, and in the early 1720s, he started to collaborate with the young Canaletto. Throughout his career, Cimaroli worked for important patrons in Venice and abroad, among them, Consul Joseph Smith, Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg and Carl Gustav Tessin. His paintings were particularly popular with English patrons. He died in Venice in 1771.
- See M. Repetto Contaldo, Cimaroli, Giovan Battista, “Dizionario biografico degli italiani”, 25 (1981) (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovan-battista-cimaroli_(Dizionario-Biografico)/); F. Spadotto, Giovan Battista Cimaroli, catalogo ragionato dei dipinti, Rovigo 2011.
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How to cite:
X. F. Salomon, Giovan Battista Cimaroli, in Gaudium Magnum Foundation. The Painting Collection, ed. V. Rossi, with T. Borgogelli and A. Marengo, Lisbon 2026.
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