Giovacchino Cantini
Giovacchino Cantini (c. 1780-1844) was an Italian engraver, active in Florence as one of Raffaello Sanzio Morghen's most successful pupils. He engraved a Virgin and Child, with Saints Sebastian & Anthony after Fra Bartolommeo; a Virgin with her hands folded after Pompeo Batoni; Judith with the Head of Holofernes after Allori (1802); The Holy Family after Leonardo da Vinci; St. Peter walking on the Sea after Cigoli; and Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti after Vasari.
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- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). 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. p. 227.CS1 maint: location (link)
Categories:
- 1780s births
- 1844 deaths
- Artists from Florence
- Italian male painters
- Italian engravers
- Italian painter, 18th-century birth stubs