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Rocco Pozzi (died c. 1780), was an Italian painter and engraver of the
Rocco Pozzi (died c. 1780), was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
period, active around 1750.
Biography
He was the brother ofStefano Pozzi
Stefano Pozzi (9 November 1699 — 11 June 1768) was an Italian painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator whose career was spent largely in Rome.
Born in Rome, he was one of four artist sons of his father, an innkeeper: Rocco (1701–74) ...
. He engraved several of the plates for the ''Museo Florentino'', and
executed prints for the ''Antiquities of Herculaneum
Antiquities are objects from antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures. Artifacts from earlier periods such as the Meso ...
'' published in Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
. He became court engraver to the King of Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
, and died about 1780. His great-grandson who shares his name was the former commissioner of the Westchester County Department of Corrections in Westchester County, New York and is the current Westchester County Probation Commissioner.
Works
Pozzi drawings appear in a 1757 publication by Ottavio Antonio Bayardi.See also
*Camillo Paderni
Camillo Paderni, or Camillus Paderni, lived from c. 1715 to 1781. He was an illustrator, excavator, and curator at the Museum Herculanense, as part of King Charles VII of Naples royal Palace in Portici, and a Roman.
Papyri
Paderni was possibly ...
References
* 1700 births 1780 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian engravers Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub