Gaetano Vascellini
Illustration — Line engraved Portrait of Maria Luisa of Spain by Vascellini Gaetano Vascellini (1745 - 1805) was an Italian engraver, active in a neoclassical style in his native Florence, Region of Tuscany, Italy. He was prolific in engraving portraits of the illustrious persons of Florence, as well as local sculpture.
Also recorded as Gaetano Vaccellini · G. Vascellini
Gaetano Vascellini
Gaetano Vascellini · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1745 · Castel San Giovanni.
- Died
- 1805 · Florence.
- Nationality
- Grand Duchy of Tuscany
- Occupation
- printmaker
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Gaetano Vascellini appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a copperplate engraver (1745 – 1805).
Life
Gaetano Vascellini was born in Castello san Giovanni, Italy (1745) and died in Florence, Italy (1805).
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Biography
Born at Castel San Giovanni in 1745, died in Florence in 1805.
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Castel San Giovanni.
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Florence.
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- 1.Ecce Homo by Vascellini, owned by Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- 2.Bénézit B00188708 Vascellini, Gaetano or Cajetano or Vaccellini
- 3.Georg Kaspar Nagler. 1849. Vascellini, Gaetano. Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon. 13. 465-467.
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Elsewhere in Prints
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- Gardar Eide EinarssonEngraver
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