Giovanni Florimi
Giovanni Florimi or Florini was a 17th-century Italian engraver, active in Tuscany.
He was a pupil of the Flemish engraver Cornelis Galle the Elder. He worked at Siena in 1630. His works consist principally of portraits, and among them, that of Francesco Piccolomini, after Francesco Vanni. He also engraved the frontispiece for the book of Concetti davidici del Pandolfini, published in Pisa in 1655. He also engraved a portrait of , archbishop of Siena and a picture of the Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia.[1]
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- ^ Biografia degli artisti, by Francesco de' Boni, 1840, Venice, page 370.
References[]
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Florimi, Giovanni". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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- Italian engravers
- Painters from Siena
- Italian artist stubs