Giovanni Francesco Venturini

Giovanni Francesco Venturini (1650–1710) was an Italian printmaker of the Baroque period.

Villa Medici with the Medici lions; etching by Venturini 1691.

He was born in Rome. From the style of his engraving, it is probable that he was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi. He etched several plates from the works of Italian masters, among them the following :

• A set of Plates; after Polidoro da Caravaggio.
• Diana and her Nymphs; after Domenichino.
• The Pulpit of S. Peter's; after Bernini.
• A partial bird's-eye View of Rome.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 652.

External links

• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Giovanni Francesco Venturini - works