Please accept our sincere sympathies in the lose of Giovanni.
Giovanni was born in Pontinia, Latina, Italia and then immigrated to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1967 at the age of 19, for a greater opportunity.!
Dictionary of National Biography, /Cipriani, Giovanni Battista
&#;CIPRIANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (–), historical painter and engraver, was born at Florence in His family was from Pistoja, and his first master was Ignazio Hugford, an Englishman, who settled early in life in Florence, and died in He also studied the works of Antonio Domenico Gabbiani, who flourished a few years before him.
Cipriani’s first public works were two pictures executed for the abbey of St. Michael-on-the-Sea at Pelago, one representing St. Tesauro, and the other St. Gregory VII. In he went to Rome, where he lived three years, and there became acquainted with Sir William Chambers, architect, and Joseph Wilton, sculptor, whom, on their return to London, he accompanied in August , and took up his residence in Mews Gate, Hedge Lane, near Charing Cross.
In the spring of the Duke of Richmond opened a gratuitous school of design, allowing artists access to his gallery in Privy Garden, Whitehall, where numerous ca