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Odoardo Fialetti, artist
Italian, 1573 - 1638
Venus Covering Sleeping Amor, from the series Scherzi d'Amore (The Sport of Love), 1617
Etching
14.4 x 9.1 cm (image)
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection 1987.1.166

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Artist Biography: Painter and etcher, born Bologna 1573, pupil of Cremonini. Went to Rome and then Venice, worked with Tintoretto, died there in 1638. See: Sopher, Marcus. Seventeenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 1978~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. vol. XVII. W¸rzburg: 1920.~Bertel‡, G.G. and Ferara, S. Incisori Bolognesi ed Emiliani del '600. Bologna: 1973.~Buffa, Sebastian. Italian Artists of the Sixteenth Century. The Illustrated Bartsch. New York: 1983, Abaris Books.~

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