Giovanni Battista Zelotti

Giovanni Battista Zelotti (1526-1578) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active in the Venice and her mainland territories.

He appears to have been born in Verona, and trained with Antonio Badile and Domenico Riccio, as well as perhaps Titian. Bernasconi claims he trained with his uncle Paolo Farinati. He is called Battista da Verona by Vasari, and also known as Battista Farinati.

He was a contemporary of Paolo Veronese and shared work in Villa Soranza near Castelfranco (1551); in the ceiling of the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci in the Doge's Palace of Venice (1553-4); in the Biblioteca Marciana (1556-7), and Palazzo Trevisan (1557) in Murano. Zelotti came to embody the Veronese tradition in the mainland, decorating at Villa Obizzi at Catajo near Padua. Also worked in Mantua for the Gonzaga family. Along with Bernardino India and Battista Franco, he helped fresco the Palladian house called La Malcontenta or Villa Foscari.

References

• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books. pp. pp. 559-560. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
• Bernasconi, Cesare (1864). Studi sopra la storia della pittura italiana dei secoli xiv e xv e della scuola pittorica veronese dai medi tempi fino tutto il secolo xviii. Googlebooks. pp. pp 333-334. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)