Giovanni Lipparini, Rosolino (died 1788) was an Italian sculptor, active in

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. He worked under the painter

Ubaldo Gandolfi Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728–1781) was an Italian painter, draughtsman and sculptor of the late-Baroque period, mainly active in and near Bologna. He is known for his biblical, mythological and allegorical subjects as well as his portraits and nudes. ...

, but trained under the brothers Fillipo and Giacomo Antonio Scandellari. He completed a bust of the physicist-academic

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for the

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, and a bas-relief for the arch of the church of the Madonna del Baraccano.Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine al 1796
compiled by Salvatore Muzzi; Tipi de S. Tommaso d'Aquino, Bologna (1846): Volume 8, page 740.

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Date of birth unknown 1788 deaths 18th-century Italian sculptors {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub