Mauro Aldrovandini

Mauro Aldrovandini (1649–1680) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. While he was most active in Bologna, and he was born there, He mainly painted perspective views and architectural subjects (quadratura) in private houses and for theaters.

Along with the figure painter Domenico Baroni, he painted the quadratura in fresco for the Oratory of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini. The frescoed ceiling depicting the Glory of St John the Baptist (1668–71).

He also painted the second of the fifteen chapels, each one celebrating the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary and which line the long portico leading up to the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca in Bologna.

Mauro's son, Pompeo Agostino, (1677-Rome, 1735) was also a painter of quadratura and landscapes.