Michelangelo Ricciolini was an Italian painter who also carried out some projects as an architect. He was a pupil of Carlo Maratta. Ricciolini created his earliest independent works in the mid-1670s. He executed frescoes for ecclesiastical and private commissioners, mainly in Rome but also in Tuscany. Besides mythological and allegorical frescoes, which he created for palazzi and villas of his wealthy clients, Ricciolini was mostly known for the tapestry imitations he executed as paintings. Ricciolini died in Frascati in 1715 while working on frescoes in the Cappella dei Santi Sebastiano e Rocco, which he had designed himself as an architect.