Giovanni Francesco Cassioni
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Portrait of Emilio Savonanzi by Cassioni
Giovanni Francesco Cassioni (17th century) was an Italian engraver in wood. He was born in Bologna, and made a number of portraits of painters for Carlo Cesare Malvasia to use in his Felsina Pittrice in 1678.
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- Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni etá e d'ogni nazione' (Volume 1). Gaetano Schiepatti; Digitized by Googlebooks, Jan 24, 2007. p. 293.
- 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. 248.
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- Italian engravers
- Baroque engravers
- Artists from Bologna
- 17th-century Italian artists
- Italian artist stubs
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