Giovanni Battista Cavagna or Cavazza was a painter and engraver, who was born at Bologna about the year 1620. He studied under Cavedone and Guido, and painted some pictures for public buildings at Bologna. The church of the Nunziata has frescoes of saints painted by him. He engraved the following plates from his own designs:
This article incorporates text from the article "CAVAZZA, Giovanni Battista" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.