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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  • 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)


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