Giovanni Francesco Venturini
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Giovanni Francesco Venturini (1650-1710) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
He was born in Rome. From the style of his engraving, it is probable that he was a pupil ot Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi. He etched several plates from the works of Italian masters, among them the following :
- A set of Plates; after Polidoro da Caravaggio.
- Diana and her Nymphs; after Domenichino.
- The Pulpit of S. Peter's; after Bernini.
- A partial bird's-eye View of Rome.
[edit] References
- 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 652.
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