Oliviero Gatti
Oliviero Gatti (1579 –1648), an Italian painter and engraver, was a native of Parma. He was a scholar of Giovanni Lodovico Valesio, and, from the resemblance of his style, although greatly inferior, to that of Agostino Carracci, was probably instructed in engraving by that master. His works as a painter are little known; but he engraved several plates, some of which are after his own designs, which possess considerable merit.
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Oliviero Gatti
Gravé par Oliviero Gatti en 1606 d’après Il Pordenone · Collection MAS Estampes Anciennes - Paris · Public domain
- Born
- 1579 · Piacenza.
- Died
- 1648 · Bologna.
- Nationality
- Italy
- Occupation
- printmaker · painter · graphic artist
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Oliviero Gatti (1579 –1648), an Italian painter and engraver, was a native of Parma. He was a scholar of Giovanni Lodovico Valesio, and, from the resemblance of his style, although greatly inferior, to that of Agostino Carracci, was probably instructed in engraving by that master. His works as a painter are little known; but he engraved several plates, some of which are after his own designs, which possess considerable merit.
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Born at Piacenza in 1579, died in Bologna in 1648.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Bologna. Work by Oliviero Gatti is recorded in the collections of Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale Center for British Art and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
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1579
Oliviero Gatti born at Piacenza.
1648
Oliviero Gatti died at Bologna.
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- 1.Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei Pittori e degli incisori italiani. Torino, 1974, Vol. V, pag. 301.
- 2.G. Gaeta Bertelà e S. Ferrara. Incisori Bolognesi ed Emiliani del sec. XVII. Bologna, 1973, nn. 636 e 643.
- 3.C. C. Malvasia. Felsina Pittrice. Bologna, 1841, II, p. 104
- 4.Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi, op. cit.; B. Ulrich Thieme, F. Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der antike bis zur gegenwart. Leipzig, 1920, vol. XIII, pp. 252,253; per gli Emblemata si veda Hester M. Black. A short title catalogue of the emblem books and related works in the Stirling Maxwell Collection of Glasgow University Library (1499-1917), edito e rivisto da David Weston, Aldershot - Glasgow University Press 1988, SM726 e SM1383
- 5.Malvasia, Felsina Pittrice, op. cit., II, p. 104
- 6.E. Bénézit. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, et graveurs .... Librarie Gründ 1951, IV, p. 172
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