Girolamo Rossi (born 1682) was an Italian engraver of the late

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. He was also called ''Girolamo de Rubeis the Younger''. He was born and lived most of his life in Rome, where he engraved a variety of plates after the Italian painters. He is said to have been a pupil of

Camillo Rama Camillo Rama (1586 – c. 1627) was an Italian painter, active in his native city of Brescia. He was the pupil of Palma il Giovane, and painted several altarpieces in Brescia. He also painted works for the refectory of the Carmelites, and for th ...

, and painted in the style of

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 ...

. He also executed several portraits of the cardinals of his time, for a series which was afterwards continued by Pazzi and others. He engraved ''The Virgin and Infant Jesus'' after Correggio and ''The Martyrdom of St. Agapita'' after Giovanni Odazzi. He also engraved a portrait of

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, and one of Saint Carlo Borromeo kneeling.

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Italian engravers Artists from Rome 1680 births Year of death unknown {{Italy-engraver-stub