Antonio Capellan
Antonio Capellan (c. 1740 in Venice – 1793 in Rome) was an Italian engraver, active in a Neoclassical style. He trained with Joseph Wagner.
Also recorded as Antonio Capelan · Antonio Cappellan · Antonio Capellani
Antonio Capellan
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- Born
- 1740. · Venice.
- Died
- 1793. · Rome.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice.
- Occupation
- painter, printmaker and copper engraver.
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Antonio Capellan (c. 1740 in Venice – 1793 in Rome) was an Italian engraver, active in a Neoclassical style. He trained with Joseph Wagner.
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Capellan is best known for making engraved copies of masterworks of the Italian Renaissance found in private collections, which were published in Gavin Hamilton's work, Schola Italica Picturae. He also engraved a series of portraits of cardinals titled "Calcographia R.C.A. apud Pedem Marmoreum". In 1759, he engraved portraits of Michelangelo and Giorgio Vasari for a volume of the life of Vasari, curated by Bottari.
Antonio Capellan is recorded as painter, printmaker and copper engraver.
A drunken husband lies sleeping as his young wife plots furtively with her lover, an oriental soldier. Engraving by A. Capellan after G. B. Piazzetta. Iconographic Collections
https: Gallery: https: Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-21)
At the bidding of God, Eve ascends praying from Adam's side. Engraving by A. Capellani, 1772, after Michelangelo. Iconographic Collections
https: Gallery: https: Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-23)
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1740
Antonio Capellan was born in 1740 at Venice.
1793
Antonio Capellan died in 1793 at Rome.
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- 1.Lo Giudice (2017), p. 41.
- 2.Lo Giudice (2017), p. 64. Catálogo n.º 130, letras a-g, pp. 561-562.
- 3.Lo Giudice (2017), p. 93.
- 4.Passamani (1975).
- 5.«Retrato de Juan de Palafox y Mendoza», Biblioteca digital hispánica, Biblioteca Nacional de España, sign. IH/6861/27. Sobre las controversias en torno a los retratos de Palafox y su oposición a la Compañía de Jesús, Ricardo Fernández García, «Alegoría y emblemática en torno al retrato del virrey don Juan de Palafox», en Zafra, R. y Azanza, J. J. (eds.) Emblemata aurea. La emblemática en el arte y la literatura del Siglo de Oro, Madrid, Akal, 2000, pp. 163-187, y del mismo, «Consideraciones sobre la riqueza iconográfica de don Juan de Palafox», en Palafox. Iglesia, Cultura y Estado en el siglo XVII, Universidad de Navarra, 2001, p. 421.
- 6.Verneda Ribera, Meritxel, «La reproducció de pintura. Gravat calcografic dels segles XVIII i XIX. Col·lecció d'estampes de la Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balague», Butlletí de la Biblioteca Museu Balaguer, (2), 99-118.
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