Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768)

• Was an Italian painter and engraver from Florence.
• active under the patronage of the House of Medici.

• He initially trained under Tommaso Redi and Lorenzo del Moro, then in Bologna under Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole.

• During his career, Campiglia was employed in Rome and Florence, painting and engraving historical subjects and portraits.
• Campiglia worked with Antonio Francesco Gori for over a decade on the Museum Florentinum, a collection of images of all the famous artists of Florence.
• Campiglia's contributions were published in 1734, which induced Pope Clement XII to bring him to Rome.
• There he worked with historian Giovanni Gaetano Bottari in engravings for his multi-volume Musei Capitolini.
• His highly finished drawings of antique and famous statues of Rome were highly prized by British tourists. 

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