Giovanni Benedetto Paolazzi (1700–1788) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Bologna, mainly in ornamental and quadratura painting.
Biography He trained initially under Antonio Dardani, and learned quadratura from Tommaso Aldrovandini.Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine al 1796, by Salvatore Muzzi; Bologna, 1846, Volume 8, page 743. He was a member of the Accademia Clementina and died in Bologna.Guida del forestiere per la città di Bologna e suoi sobborghi, by Girolamo Bianconi; 1820, page 525. Paolazzi help decorate some of the rooms in the Palazzo Malvezzi Campeggi.Memoria di Bologna, comune website on the palace Malvezzi Campeggi.
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