Italian architect and sculptor. He was active mainly in the province of Verona, but he worked also in Bologna where he erected some altars. In Verona he was in charge of some works at the Church of the Scalzi and the Church of the Redeemer near the Rioman theater.
Bianchi’s most important achievement was the Villa Allegri Arvedi in Cuzzano di Grezzana.
The imposing Villa Allegri complex looks out on an elaborate Italian-style garden. It was built around 1656 by the Allegri family, nobility from Verona, on the site of a preexisting sixteenth-century structure. It was designed by the Veronese architect and sculptor Giovanni Battista Bianchi. A double-ramp staircase leads to the adjoining oratory which was rebuilt in its current form in the early eighteenth century. In 1824 the entire property was acquired by Antonio Arvedi, a wealthy industrialist from Trento.
The main hall of the villa and the oratory was decorated with frescoes by Louis Dorigny in c. 1719.
