Palazzo del Podestà, Chapel

Giovanni Battista Caccioli was a Baroque painter from Bologna. He was pupil of Domenico Maria Canuti. He worked in many towns of the Po valley, in particular in Mantua, where he also decorated a room of Palazzo Canossa. His style is lively and dynamic. In the Cathedral of Sant'Andrea it is possible to admire an altarpiece by him, it shows Saints Carlo and Francesco praying the Virgin Mary. Probably he was also a sculptor, although no traces of this activity have survived.