Mattia Bortoloni
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Mattia Bortoloni (March 31, 1695 - 1750) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, mainly active in the area of Bergamo and Venice.
Born in Canda, near Rovigo, he died in Bergamo. He trained with Antonio Balestra of Verona. Bortoloni painted the 104-panel fresco cycle at Villa Cornaro, a Palladian villa in Piombino Dese near Padua. He also painted a ceiling in the Ca' Rezzonico. Other examples of Bortoloni's work are displayed at various monuments in the Veneto and Lombardy, including the parish churches at Castelgugielmo and Fratta Polesine, and in the ceilings at the Church of San Nicolò da Tolentino (presbytery, c. 1730) and Villa Vendramin-Calergi. Along with Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (of the Galli Bibiena family of artists) and Felice Biella, in 1746-48, Bortoloni helped complete ceiling frescoes in the Vicoforte Sanctuary.
