Felice Polanzani

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi by Felice Polanzani, engraving from first edition, ’b’; Book: Opere varie, Frontispiece, 1750

Felice Polanzani (or Polanzi) (c. 1700 - after 1771) was an Italian engraver.

Polanzani was born at Noale, near Venice, but 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 . He also engraved works of Van Dyck, Carlo Cignani, Marco Benefial, and G. Noyan.

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  • Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). 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. p. 305.CS1 maint: location (link)

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