VALESIO, Giovanni Luigi
(b. ~1583 Bologna, d. ~1633 Roma)
Italian painter and engraver. As a native of Bologna, he studied in the school of Lodovico Carracci. He painted some pictures for the churches of Bologna, but is more known as an engraver and painter of miniatures. Among his works in Bologna are a Scourging of Christ in the church of San Pietro, the Annunciation, at the Mendicanti, and St Roch Curing the Victims of the Plague, in the church dedicated to that saint. In Rome, he painted the ceiling of the library in the Casino dell’Aurora, Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi.
He etched several plates from his own designs, and those of other masters.
