Antonio Capellan (c. 1740 in
Venice
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– 1793 in
Rome) was an Italian
engraver, active in a
Neoclassical style.
He trained with
Joseph Wagner. Capellan is best known for making engraved copies of masterworks of the
Italian Renaissance found in private collections, which were published in
Gavin Hamilton's work, ''Schola Italica Picturae''.
He also engraved a series of portraits of cardinals titled "Calcographia R.C.A. apud Pedem Marmoreum". In 1759, he engraved portraits of
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...
and
Giorgio Vasari for a volume of the life of Vasari, curated by Bottari.
Biografia degli artisti
Volume one, Venice, Francesco de Boni, 1840, page 183.
References
Italian engravers
Year of birth uncertain
1793 deaths
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