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Giovanni Paderna (17th century) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He trained with Girolamo Curti became an accomplished imitator of Agostino Mitelli the pre-eminent quadratura painter from Bologna. Paderna became a colleague of Baldassare Bianchi; and the latter at the death of Paderna having become Mitelli’s son-in-law was placed by the father-in-law to work with Giovanni Giacomo Monti. He died at age 40 years.