Felice Polanzani

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Felice Polanzani (or Polanzi) (c. 1700-after1771) was an Italian engraver. He was born at Andale, near Venice.

He worked mainly in Rome, where he engraved a set of twenty-two plates, representing the Life of the Virgin based on designs some attributed to Nicolas Poussin others to Jacobo Stella.He also engraved works of Van Dyck, Carlo Cignani, Marco Benefial, and G. Noyan.

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• Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 305. 

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