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Giovanni Giacomo Monti (born 1692) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He trained with Agostino Mitelli the pre-eminent quadratura painter from Bologna. Monti became a colleague of Baldassare Bianchi Mitelli’s son-in-law. This partnership also met with success particularly at Mantua where they both received regular salaries from the Ducal Court. Their figure-painter was Giovanni Battista Caccioli of Budrio pupil to Domenico Maria Canuti and a follower of Carlo Cignani.