Francesco De Grado (

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, active 1694–1730) was an Italian engraver.

Biography

He engraved a work by Raffaele Maria Filamondo, title

published in Naples in 1694 with designs by Filippo Schor, son of the famous engraver Johann Paul Schor. Also De Grado illustrated with designs by Michelangelo De Balsio. He engraved illustrations of the (see Greasy pole or ''Cockaigne''), used in the celebration held in Naples in honor of the Emperor of Spain on November 4, 1729. This text was edited by

Francesco Riccardi Francesco, the Italian (and original) version of the personal name "Francis", is the most common given name among males in Italy. Notable persons with that name include: People with the given name Francesco * Francesco I (disambiguation), sever ...

in 1734 with designs by Cristoforo Rossi and

Domenico Antonio Vaccaro Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (June 3, 1678 – June 13, 1745) was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect. He created many important sculptural and architectural projects in Naples. His later works are executed in an individualistic Rococo s ...

. His two sons Angelo and Bartolomeo, as well as Bartolomeo's son Filippo, were also engravers. Cirillo made designs engraved by De Grado for the Archeologist Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi's text
''In mutilum Campani ampitheatri titulum aliasque nonnullas Campanas inscriptiones Commetarius''
published in Naples in 1727, and including a depiction of a Roman amphitheater in Capua. Angelo and Bartolomeo and the latter's son Filippo were also engravers. ''Santolo Cirillo pittore grumese del '700''
, by Franco Pezzella March 2009, Tipografia Cav. Mattia Cirillo, Corso Durante, Frattamaggiore (Province of Naples) Page 13.

References

17th-century Italian artists 18th-century Italian artists Italian engravers People from Naples {{Italy-engraver-stub