Fabio Berardi (engraver)

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Fabio Berardi (1728-1788) was an Italian engraver of the Baroque period, active in Tuscany. He was born in Siena . He went to Venice when young, and trained under Joseph Wagner. Among other works, he engraved in 1767 a booklet of pictures about the life of emperor Francis I. He also engraved the following:

• 1. St. Seraphinus worshipping the Cross (1767)
  2. A Woman sleeping, surprised by a Sportsman and Four Pastoral Subjects after Piazzetta.
  3. Isaac blessing Jacob and a Sacrifice of Gideon after Pittoni
  4. Jacob and Rachel after Giuseppe Varotti
  5. Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert after J. Varana.
  6. Six Views in Venice (1742); after Canaletto; engraved by Berardi and Wagner.

[edit] References

• Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d’ogni etá e d’ogni nazione' (Volume 1). Gaetano Schiepatti; Digitized by Googlebooks, Jan 24, 2007, page 143. 
• Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 113. 

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