Giovanni Battista Rezzonico
Giovanni Battista Rezzonico was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
He was born in Venice, Italy. He was the nephew of Pope Clement XIII . His brother Carlo was also a cardinal and Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals from 1769 to 1799. On 10 September 1770, he was named a cardinal by Clement XIV and installed on 12 December 1770. He died as Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere. He participated in the papal conclave of 1774-1775.
In the 1760s, he engaged Giovanni Battista Piranesi to enhance the structure of Rome's Santa Maria del Priorato Church and its plaza, providing both with new decoration.
