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Ottavio Leoni, artist
Italian, 1578 - 1630
Portrait of Galileo Galilei, 1624
Engraving and etching
14.2 x 11.1 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1968.13.27

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Artist Biography: Ottavio Mario Leoni. Portrait painter and printer; born in Rome 1578, died there 1630.See: T.H. Thomas. "Ottavio Leoni: A Forgotten Portraitist". The Print Collector's Quarterly VI, 1916. Pp. 323-73. See Also: Marcus Sopher. Seventeenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 1978.~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. vol.17. W¸rzburg: 1920~Buffa, Sebastian. Italian Artists of the Sixteenth Century. The Illustrated Bartsch. vol. 38. Abaris Books: 1983, New York.~