Giovanni Girolamo Frezza
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Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (1659-1730) was an Italian engraver. He was born in Canemorto, near Tivoli, and died in Rome. He was instructed in engraving at Rome by Arnold van Westerhout.
His engravings include:
- Frescoes by Francesco Albani in the Verospi Palace.
- Seventeen plates depicting pictures in the church of Santa Maria in Montesanto at Rome by Niccolo Berrettoni.
- The Virgin suckling the Infant after Lodovico Carracci.
- Holy Family, Assumption of the Virgin, The Twelve Months, Judgment of Paris after Carlo Maratti.
- The Riposo in Egypt called the Zingarella; after Correggio.
- The Descent of the Holy Ghost after Reni.
- Polyphemus on rock, and Galatea and her Nymphs & Polyphemus hurling rock at Acis and Galatea after Sisto Badalocchio from Palazzo Farnese ceiling.
- " V.P. Ioseph Anchieta Soc Iesv in Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil
[edit] References
- Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: 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, page 526.
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