Giampietro Zanotti was an Italian

Italy

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 painter and art historian of the late-Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 or Rococo

Rococo

Rococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...

 period.

He studied painting in Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

 with Lorenzo Pasinelli

Lorenzo Pasinelli

Lorenzo Pasinelli was an Italian painter from Bologna of the Baroque period, who trained in the studio of Simone Cantarini....

. In the first decade of the 18th century, he became one of the founding members of the artists' academy in Bologna http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=108707&handle=li, known as the Accademia Clementina. Among his writings was a guide to young painters: Avvertimenti per l'incamminamento di un giovanne alla pittura. He also wrote a biography about the painter and friend Giovanni Gioseffo Dal Sole

Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole

Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole was an Italian painter and engraver from Bologna, active in the late-Baroque period....

http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/object.asp?searchText=dal+Sole&x=0&y=0&object=903643&row=1&detail=about. Giampietro's brother, Francesco Maria Zanotti, was a philosopher in Bologna. His son Eustachio Zanotti was a noted astronomer and mathematician (1709–1782). Among his pupils was Ercole Lelli

Ercole Lelli

Ercole Lelli was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Northern Italy, including his native city of Bologna, as well as Padua and Piacenza....

, best known for his anatomic studies in wax.