Giovanni Battista Volpati

Giovanni Battista Volpato (March 7, 1633 – 1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Bassano. He was the author of some treatises on the fine arts. The most important of these is La Verità Pittoresca.

His father tried to make him follow a profession as a clergy man. He abandoned this to dedicate himself to designa and art. He studied engraving with Marco Sadeler in Venice.[1]

References

1. Notizie intorno alla vita e alle opere de' pittori, scultori e intagliatori della Citta di Bassano, by Giambatista Verci, Appreso Giovanni Gatti, Venice (1775), page 246.

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 681.CS1 maint: location (link)