Carlo Bianconi

He trained in Bologna with Ercole Graziani the Younger in Bologna. He created many engravings of antiquities. In Bologna, he worked with Mauro Tesi in designing a monument to their patron, Count Francesco Algarotti.^[1]

He was a member of the Accademia Clementina, but moved to Milan in 1778 and became secretary of the Brera Academy for twenty years.^[2] he had helped edit Malvasia's guide to Bologna. In 1787, he published a Guide to Arts and Antiquities in Milan.^[3] He died in Milan.

His brother Giovanni Ludovico Bianconi, was a neoclassical doctor, art historian, and antiquarian, who was a close friend of Winckelmann.

• Myers claims Giovanni Ludovico was Carlo's father. Carlo Bianconi does not appear to be closely related to Charles Bianconi.

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