Full Name: Bianconi, Giovanni Lodovico
Gender: male
Date Born: 1717
Date Died: 1781
Place Born: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Place Died: Perugia, Perugia, Umbria, Italy
Home Country/ies: Italy
Subject Area(s): Italian (culture or style), Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles, painting (visual works), and Renaissance
Career(s): art collectors, physicians, and scientists
Overview
doctor, scientist, scholar, art historian; purchased Raphael’s Sistine Madonna (c. 1512-14), in 1753 for the Dresden Gemäldegalerie, wrote important monographs on Piranesi (1779), Mengs ( 1780) and antiquarian work, Descrizione dei circhi particolarmente di quello di Caracalla (1789).