Fabio Berardi (1728–1788) was an Italian engraver of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period, active in

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. He was born in

Siena Siena ( , ; lat, Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena. The city is historically linked to commercial and banking activities, having been a major banking center until the 13th and 14th centuri ...

. He went to

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when young, and trained under Joseph Wagner. Among other works, he engraved in 1767 a booklet of pictures about the life of emperor Francis I. He also engraved the following: *#''St. Seraphinus worshipping the Cross'' (1767) *#''A Woman sleeping, surprised by a Sportsman'' and ''Four Pastoral Subjects'' after

Piazzetta Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo art, Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and Genre works, genre s ...

. *#''Isaac blessing Jacob'' and a ''Sacrifice of Gideon'' after

Pittoni Giambattista Pittoni or Giovanni Battista Pittoni (6 June 1687 – 6 November 1767) was a Venetian painter of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He was among the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, of which in 1758 he became the s ...

*#''Jacob and Rachel'' after

Giuseppe Varotti Giuseppe Varotti (Bologna, 1715- Bologna, 1780) was an Italian painter, active depicting sacred and historical subjects in a late- Baroque or Rococo style. Biography He trained with his father, Pier Paolo Varotti (1686-1732), a follower of Gius ...

*#''Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert'' after J. Varana. *# Six Views in

(1742); after

Canaletto Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. Painter of city views or ...

; engraved by Berardi and Wagner.

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* * 1728 births 1788 deaths People from Siena Italian engravers {{Italy-engraver-stub