Giambattista Zelotti (1526–1578),
• He was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance.
• He appears have been born in Verona, then part of the Venetian mainland.
• Zelotti was trained with Antonio Badile and Domenico Riccio.
• Bernasconi claims he trained with his uncle Paolo Farinati.
• He is called Battista da Verona by Vasari, and was also known as Battista Farinati.
• He was a contemporary of
Paolo Veronese and shared work in the Villa Soranza near Castelfranco (1551) and at Venice.
• He frescoed villas designed by Andrea Palladio, notably Villa Emo and Villa Foscari, where he worked with Bernardino India and Battista Franco.
• With the painter Giovanni Antonio Fasolo he worked also at Villa Caldogno (about 1570) and at Palazzo Porto Colleoni Thiene.
• He also worked in Mantua for the house of Gonzaga.
