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Giovanni Battista Casanova (; 2 November 1730 – 8 December 1795) was an Italian painter and
printmaker
Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...
of the
Neoclassic period.
He was a brother of
Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (, ; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, (''Story of My Life''), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of information about the c ...
and
Francesco Giuseppe Casanova
Francesco Giuseppe Casanova (1 June 1727, London – 8 July 1803, near Mödling) was an Italian painter who specialised in battle scenes. His older brother was Giacomo Casanova, the famous adventurer, and his younger brother was Giovanni Casano ...
and was born at
Venice
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. He studied painting under
Israel Silvestre
Israel Silvestre (13 August 1621 in Nancy – 11 October 1691 in Paris), called the Younger to distinguish him from his father, was a prolific French draftsman, etcher and print dealer who specialized in topographical views and perspectives ...
and
Dietrich at
Dresden
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, and went in 1752 to Rome, where, under the tuition of
Anton Raphael Mengs
Anton Raphael Mengs (22 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German people, German painter, active in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassicism, Neoclas ...
, he became an accomplished artist in pencil and crayon. Among other works he designed the plates to
Winckelmann's ''Monumenti antichi''. He was appointed professor in the Academy at Dresden in 1764.
References
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1730 births
1795 deaths
Republic of Venice artists
Italian printmakers
Italian engravers
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts faculty
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