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Giampietro Zanotti (1674–1765) was an Italian painter and art historian of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.
He studied painting in Bologna with Lorenzo Pasinelli. In the first decade of the 18th century, he became one of the founding members of the artists' academy in Bologna [1], known as the Accademia Clementina. Among his writings was a guide to young painters: Avvertimenti per l'incamminamento di un giovane alla pittura. He also wrote a biography about the painter and friend Giovanni Gioseffo Dal Sole[2]. 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, best known for his anatomic studies in wax.
Partial Anthology
- Zanotti, Giampietro (1739). Storia dell'Accademia Clementina di Bologna Aggregata all'Instituto delle Scienze e dell'Arti Volume One containing first and second book. Lelio dalla Volpe, Bologna.
- Zanotti, Giampietro (1739). Storia dell'Accademia Clementian di Bologna Aggregata all'Instituto delle Scienze e dell'Arti Volume Two containing first and second book. Lelio dalla Volpe, Bologna.
- Zanotti, Giampietro (1718). Didone, Tragedia. Constantino Pisarri, Bologna.
- Zanotti, Giampietro (1743). L'Ignorante Presuntuoso, Commedia. Marchionis Salsae, Bologna.
- Zanotti, Giampietro (1830). Alcune Operette. Tipografia Alvisopole, Venice.