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Stefano della Bella, artist
Italian, 1610 - 1664
The Corpus Christi Day Procession, circa 1644
Etching
33.7 x 47.3 cm (image)
California State Library long loan L102.1966

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publisher, Arnold Van Westerhout

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Artist Biography: Painter, Etcher, Engraver. An important printmaker as well as a consummate draftsman. Possessed a skilled and playful hand. Lived at a time when graphic art had a large international audience. An exact contemporary of Giovanni-Benedetto Castiglione and Rembrandt van Rijn. Was most strongly influenced by the French artist Jacques Callot.~~Son of the sculptor Francesco della Bella, who wished for him to carry on the profession. However, Stefano's early designs were so extraordinary that Francesco sent him to study painting with Cesare Dandini. However, Stefano wanted to be an engraver, and with his father's blessing he entered the atelier of Remigio Cantagallina, the teacher of Callot. A protÈgÈ of the Medici, he worked for them before going to Rome ca. 1638. Worked in Paris for many French publishers, returning to Florence in 1650, at which time the Grand Duke of Tuscany named him the design teacher for his son Cosme. Stefano is buried in the church at San Ambrogio. ~~Reference: De Vesme, Alexandre: Le Peintre-graveur italien. ( Milan, 1906), pp. 66-332, reprinted in De Vesme, Alexandre, with intro. and additions by Phyllis Dearborn Massar. Stefano Della Bella. New York: 1971, Collectors Editions Ltd. 2 vols.~De Vesme, Alexandre, intro. and additions by Phyllis Dearborn Massar: Stefano Della Bella ([New York: Collectors Editions Ltd., 1971]), 2 vols. ~ Marcus Sopher, Seventeenth-Century Italian Prints, Stanford: 1978.~~

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