Search Results

Image 1 of 1

Giovanni Volpato , engraver
Italian, 1740 - 1803
The School of Athens, after the fresco by Raphael in the Vatican Stanze, 18th century
Engraving
54.6 x 74.1 cm (sheet)
Gift of Mrs. Edward H. Heller 1959.121.??

Zoom this image

after, Raffaello Sanzio~publisher, Giovanni Volpato

Artist Credit: all

Artist Biography: Born in Bassano, worked for Remondini's publishing operation. In 1762 Bartolozzi brought him into Joseph Wagner's shop in Venice. Ca. 1772 he went to Rome and set up his own establishment where Raphael Morghen studied. He died in Rome in 1803. See: Lazzaro, Claudia. Eighteenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 1981~~Reference: Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes. Paris: 1854. vol. 4~