Innocente Alessandri (born c. 1740) was an Italian engraver, born in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

, who studied with Francesco Bartolozzi, before that artist left Italy. His prints include '' Virgin Mary, with the guardian angel and the souls in Purgatory'' after

Sebastiano Ricci Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesqu ...

; four prints, representing ''Astronomy'', ''Geometry'', ''Music'', and ''Painting'', after

Domenico Maggiotto Domenico Maggiotto or Domenico Fedeli (1713–1794) was an Italian painter and engraver of the late-Baroque period. He was one of the main pupils of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta ...

; a ''Virgin Mary with a glory of angels'' after

Giambattista Piazzetta Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes. Biography Piazzetta was ...

; The ''Annunciation'', after François Lemoyne; and fourteen landscapes and a ''Flight into Egypt'' after

Marco Ricci Marco Ricci (6 June 1676 – 21 January 1730) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Early years He was born at Belluno and received his first instruction in art from his uncle, Sebastiano Ricci, likely in Milan in 1694–6.Giacometti, Mar ...

. Bryan,1886-9

References

* Alessandri, Innocente, Scattaglia, Pietro, Descrizioni degli animali: corrispondenti alle cinquanta figure contenute in questo ... volume de' quadrupedi, 1771. *
Volume 1
from Internet Archive *
Volume 2
from Internet Archive *
Volume 3
from Internet Archive *
Volume 4
from Internet Archive

Sources

* Italian engravers Painters from Venice 18th-century Venetian people {{Italy-engraver-stub