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Ventura Salimbeni, engraver
Italian, 1568 - 1613
Marriage of the Virgin, 1590
Engraving
21 x 14.7 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.36151

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Artist Biography: Ventura di Arcangelo Salimbeni, called Bevilacqua. Painter and etcher, born 1567/1568 in Siena, son of painter Arcangelo Salimbeni and Battista Morelli, half-brother of Francesco Vanni. In Rome from 1588-96 during which time he made his 7 etchings. Given the title of Il Cavaliere Bevilacqua. Died Siena 1613. See: Sopher, Marcus. Sixteenth-Century Italian Prints. Claremont: 1978.~~Reference: Reed, Sue Welsh, and R. Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque. Boston: 1989, Museum of Fine Arts.~Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. W¸rzburg: 1920 ~Buffa, Sebastian. Italian Artsists of the Sixteenth Century. New York: 1983, Abaris Books.~