Giacomo Barri (died 1690) was an Italian painter and printmaker of the

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period. He was born in

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. He etched some plates from his own designs, and in 1671 published a book entitled ''Viaggio pittoresco d'Italia'', with summary

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of the towns and paintings of great masters from diverse cities of Italy. Within a decade, the book was re-published in English by William Lodge (1649–1689) from Leeds.The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal; Yorkshire Archaeological Society (1898); page 433. (Googlebooks digitized Oct 27, 2005) He also completed an etching of the ''Nativity'' after

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

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* * 1690 deaths Republic of Venice artists 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian printmakers Italian Baroque painters Year of birth unknown Painters from the Republic of Venice {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub