Giovanni Antonio Faldoni

Giovanni Antonio Faldoni (born April 24, 1689 in Asolo , Republic of Venice ; died around 1770 in Rome or Venice ) was an Italian engraver and painter.

Life

Giovanni Antonio Faldoni's father Girolamo Faldoni was a painter, his brother Francesco Faldoni worked as an engraver. Faldoni was a student of the landscape painter Antonio Luciani. While studying in Paris, he acquired the new technique of parallel hatching , as he had seen it with Claude Mellan . He settled in Venice and was successful with this technique in depicting antiquities and portraits. He worked for the engraver and publisher Antonio Maria Zanetti the Elder and his nephew of the same name.

A pupil of Faldoni was Marco Alvise Pitteri . After disputes, Faldoni was banished from the Serenissima area in 1765. He can then still be traced to Rome, but his place of death is unclear.

Works (selection)

Portrait of Marco Ricci (1724, after Rosalba Carriera )

Varii Disegni Inventati dal Celebre Francesco Mazzuola Detto Il Parmigianino Tratti Dalla Raccolta Zanettiana Incisi in Rame Da Antonio Faldoni e novamente Pubblicati . Venezia, 1786

literature

Andrew John Martin: Faldoni, Giovanni Antonio . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 36, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22776-0 , p. 376.
Aldo Ravà: Faldoni, Giovanni Antonio . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 227 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Luigi Comacchio: Giovanni Antonio Faldon, incisore asolano (1689-1770). Tecnoprint, Castelfranco, Veneto 1976
Michael Matile (ed.): Della grafica veneziana: the age of Anton Maria Zanetti (1680–1767). Imhof, Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0330-7 , p. 136 ff.

Web links

Literature by and about Giovanni Antonio Faldoni in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Works associated with Giovanni Antonio Faldoni in the RA Collection , at the Royal Academy of Arts

Individual evidence

↑ Luciani, Antonio . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 437 .
^ Zanetti, Antonio Maria . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 404 .

personal data
SURNAME	Faldoni, Giovanni Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Faldon, Gianantonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian engraver and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1689
PLACE OF BIRTH	Asolo
DATE OF DEATH	around 1770
Place of death	Rome or Venice

[1] Luciani, Antonio . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 437 .

[2] Zanetti, Antonio Maria . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 404 .