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Biography:

He was born in Verona to Pietro Maderni, a sculptor native to Codilago in the Ticino. Giovanni Battista studied in the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence. Returning to Verona, he painted a canvas of Fall of the Jews in Mantua for a local church. He traveled to Paris, Berlin, London, Netherlands. He made a set of engravings on describing the art and architecture of the Teatro Tordinona in Rome. He then moved to St Petersburg, and finally to Stockholm.

References:

Descrizione delle Pitture, degl'ordini, Volta, e Sipario del Nuovo Teatro di Tordinona.
Dizionario storico raggionato degli uomini illustri del canton Ticino, by Gian Alfonso Oldelli (1807)
see also:

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/343244?sortBy=Relevance&ft=giovanni+battista+maderna&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=1

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAPOLLO_DRIVING_THE_CHARIOT_OF_THE_SUN_AND_HIS_MUSES.jpg

ANTON BIEDERWOLF - 19.11. 2017