Giovanni Vendramini (1769 – 8 February 1839) was an Italian engraver.

Biography

He was born at

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. He pursued his studies in his own country till nineteen, studying architecture with

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in Bassano del Grappa and

engraving Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ...

, particularly stipple, which he practised in the studio of Antonio Suntach. He then moved to

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, and completed his artistic education under

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. In 1802 he married an English wife, and in 1805 he went to Russia, and spent two years in that country. He was patronized by the Emperor and the court, and his talents so highly appreciated, that he was refused a passport when he was desirous of returning to England. He, however, with the assistance of his friend, the Duke of Saracapriolo at that time Neapolitan ambassador, contrived to escape, disguised as a courier charged with dispatches. His departure was hastened by an accident that happened to a large cameo, ''Alexander and Olympia'', from which he had to engrave a plate for the emperor. On his return to England he engraved several popular pictures by contemporary painters. Among these are, ''The Vision of S. Catherine'', after

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; ''S. Sebastian'' after

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; ''Leda'' after

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; and lastly, the ''Raising of Lazarus'' after Sebastiano del Piombo. Vendramini was a very accurate draughtsman, and frequently engraved from a picture without making a preparatory drawing. He died in

References

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