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A painter, draughtsman and engraver, Battista Franco was born and raised in Venice (throughout his career he signed his paintings ‘Baptista Veneziano’), where he was probably a pupil of his father Jacopo, a painter. Battista spent the first years of his independent career in Rome, where he arrived at the age of twenty. In April he worked with Raffaello da Montelupo on the decoration of the Ponte Sant’Angelo for the entry of Charles V into Rome, and later that month settled in Florence, where he was engaged on the ephemeral decorations for the wedding of the Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and Eleanora of Toledo in Franco was back in Rome by , when he painted a fresco of The Capture of Saint John the Baptist for the Oratorio di San Giovanni Decollato; a work that, like much of his youthful oeuvre as a painter, shows the distinct influence of Michelangelo. In Franco was summoned by Duke Guidobaldo II da Montefeltro to Urbino. He worked

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Italian architect and artist (–)

"Piranesi" redirects here. For other uses, see Piranesi (disambiguation).

Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi (Italian pronunciation:[dʒoˈvannibatˈtistapiraˈneːzi;-eːsi]; also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October – 9 November ) was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'invenzione). He was the father of Francesco Piranesi, Laura Piranesi and Pietro Piranesi.

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Piranesi was born in Venice, in the parish of San Moisè, where he was baptised. His father was a stonemason. His brother Andrea introduced him to Latin literature and ancient Greco-Roman civilization, and later he was apprenticed under his uncle, Matteo Lucchesi, who was a leading architect in the Magistrato alle Acque, the state organization responsible for engineering and restoring historical buildings.

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Giovanni Battista Cecchi

Giovanni Battista Cecchi (/9 – after ) was an Italian engraver, active in a neoclassical style in his native Florence, Region of Tuscany, Italy.

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Initially trained as a carpenter, an injury to his dominant right hand prompted apprenticing beneath Francesco Conti, and subsequently became a follower of the engraver Ferdinando Gregori. He initially dedicated himself to printed copies of major paintings, for example, a reproduction () of the Madonna and Child by Annibale Carracci (On display at Istituto nazionale per la grafica) and a copy () of the Mystical Marriage of St Catherine bygd Francesco Vanni.

He was one of the artists commissioned bygd the Grand-Duke Leopold in to complete a 12 volume work: Serie degli uomini i più illustri nella pittura, scultura, e architettura con i loro elogi, e ritratti incisi in rame cominciando dalla sua prima restaurazione fino ai tempi presenti, containing over engravings of artist portraits.