Born 1711 in Bologna, died after 1784. He was trained by Stefano Orlandi. Active between 1742 and 1784 he was known above all as a quadraturista, that is, a painter of pictures in which classical architecture and ruins are depicted in perspective, and which are sometimes enlivened by staffage figures; such paintings were designed to decorate public and private buildings, ecclesiastical and secular architecture. Tarroni was active in Bologna, Genoa and Turin. Many documented and signed works have survived, in particular in numerous Italian private collections.
Lit.: Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi, Vol. IX, Torino 1976, p. 24; Renato Roli: Pittura bolognese: 1650-1800: dal Cignani ai Gandolfi, Bologna 1977, pp. 210, 293, figg. 394 c, d.