Giovanni Battista Cimaroli: The Forgotten Venetian Landscape Painter Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (1687 – 1771) remains a curiously overlooked figure in the annals of Italian Baroque art, despite producing a prolific oeuvre of landscapes that captivated aristocratic patrons and contemporaries alike. Born in Salò, Lake Garda, he emerged from a milieu steeped in artistic tradition—his father was a sculptor—and benefited from formative ins…