Pittore paesaggista e incisore veneto, nato da una famiglia di pastori, del quale si hanno notizie biografiche molto scarse. A Bassano attese allo studio della lingua latina e del disegno presso la celebre calcografia Remondini dove poté godere dell’amicizia e della protezione di Giuseppe ed...
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Pittore, disegnatore e incisore italiano attivo prima in Sicilia e poi a Roma. Figlio di Maestro Placido vasaio e fabbricante di mattoni e di Caterina Pugliesi. Fin da piccolo ha mostrato inclinazione per l'arte tanto che a 15 anni ha iniziato a disegnare e a...
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Incisore e disegnatore francese, Jacques-Philippe si è formato alla scuola di Nicolas-Henri Tardieu e di Antoine Herisset. Egli ha operato principalmente a Parigi, tra il 1730 ed il 1783, dirigendovi uno dei più importanti ateliers della città e divenendo uno dei più famosi incisori francesi...
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Born in Venice on 17 October 1697 by Bernardo Cesare Canal and Artemisia Barbieri. The nickname "Canaletto" was attributed to him to distinguish him from the father with whom he collaborated and who was a painter of theatrical sets, or perhaps because of his short...
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Venetian painter and engraver, he was learner of his father, Pietro Antonio, who was a painter and etcher. He worked in Venice and Rome and his engravings were influenced by Dominique-Vivant Denon, a French painter and engraver, active in the lagoon town towards the end...
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English painter and engraver, he is considered to be the most important artistic personality of British Enlightenment. Son of a school teacher, he learnt the art of engraving at the laboratory of the silversmith Ellis Gamble....
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Italian architect and engraver, son of the great engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Angela Pasquini, daughter of the gardener of Prince Corsini. From his father he learnt the art of engraving and, as soon as he reached the right age, he worked like other workshop helpers,...
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Fourth of six brothers, Francisco was born in a village near Zaragoza, in a small bourgeois family. His father José was a goldsmith master, while his mother Gracia Lucientes was a “Hidalga”, i.e. belonging to the lowest level of Spanish nobility. With his family he...
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Austrian engraver, draftsman and painter, son of the carpenter Anthon Weirauther and Gertraud Orner. Orphan at the age of seven, he was assigned to an aunt with whom he remained until the age of fourteen....
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Italian engraver, son of Maddalena Pieri and Gaetano Florentine goldsmith who probably had a workshop in Ponte Vecchio. At the age of nine years Francesco had already learnt to draw and the technical bases of the intaglio. He improved his studies at the Academy of...
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