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This book has a title page and contains 24 etched portraits and text relating to the sitter with ornament borders. The book is bound in marble paper-covered boards with a vellum back corners.
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Title: Compendio delle vite de' pittori veneziani istorici più rinomati del presente secolo con suoi ritratti tratti dal naturale delineati ed incisi
Artist:
Alessandro Longhi (Italian, Venice 1733–1813 Venice)
Sitter:
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)
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Niccolo (Nicolaus) Bambini (Italian, Venice 1651–1736 Venice)
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Sebastiano Ricci (Italian, Belluno 1659–1734 Venice)
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Gregorio Lazzarini (Italian, Venice 1655–1730 Villa Bona near Polesine)
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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, Venice 1682–1754 Venice)
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Giambettino Cignaroli (Italian, 1706–1770)
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Jacopo Amigoni (Italian, Venice 1682–1752 Madrid)
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Giovanni Battista Pittoni (Italian, Venice 1687–1767 Venice)
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Gaspare Diziani (Italian, Belluno 1689–1767 Venice)
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Giussepe Nogari (Italian, 1699–1766)
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Giuseppe Camerata (Italian, ca. 1668–1761 or 1762)
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Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) (Italian, Venice 1701–1785 Venice)
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Giuseppe Angeli (Angioli) (Italian, 1712–1798)
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Jacopo Guarana (Italian, Venice 1720–1808 Venice)
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Francesco Fontebasso (Italian, Venice 1707–1769 Venice)
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Domenico Maggiotto (Italian, Venice 1712–1794 Venice)
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Antonio Marinetti (Italian, Chioggia 1710–1796 Venice)
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Fabio Canal (Italian, 1703–1767)
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Francesco Zugno (Italian, Venice 1709–1787 Venice)
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Francesco Polazzo (Italian)
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Antonio Zucchi (Italian, Venice 1726–1796 Rome)
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Michele Marieschi (Italian, Venice 1710–1743 Venice)
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Pietro Antonio Novelli (Italian, Venice 1729–1804 Venice)
Sitter:
Alessandro Longhi (Italian, Venice 1733–1813 Venice)
Publisher:
Alessandro Longhi (Italian, Venice 1733–1813 Venice)
Date: 1762
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: 20 3/8 x 14 15/16 in. (51.8 x 37.9 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1950
Object Number: 50.598.3
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