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Ventura Salimbeni, artist
Italian, 1568 - 1613
Geometry and Studies of Cats, 16th - 17th century
Black chalk on laid paper prepared with a red ground, mounted to a heavier sheet , with red chalk signature
19.8 x 12.7 cm (sheet)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.24.124

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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.~

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