PARODI, Giovanni Battista II

Italian painter, part of a family of artists, son of Filippo Parodi. Most of his career was spent outside Genoa, in Milan and Bergamo. In Genoa, his frescoes are in the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena. He painted church ceilings in Milan, contributed to the decoration of churches in Bergamo and to the Palazzo Mazzoleni in Bibbiena. In Rome, his sole prominent public commission was for the fresco of the ceiling of San Pietro in Vincoli in 1706 and the vault medallions (c. 1706) in Santa Maria dell’Orto.