Stefano Ticozzi (1762-1836) was an Italian art historian.
He was born in Pasturo, near
Como
Como (, ; lmo, Còmm, label=Comasco dialect, Comasco , or ; lat, Novum Comum; rm, Com; french: Côme) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como.
Its proximity to Lake Como and ...
, he wrote the three volumes published in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
during 1830-1833 of the encyclopedic ''Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni età e d'ogni nazione'' (Dictionary of the architects, sculptors, painters, engravers in wood and stone, minters of medallions, mosaicists, jewelers of
niello
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, and makers of
intarsio work). The work was a then up-to-date assembly of biographical data and works of artists from Europe of the prior four centuries to the contemporary time, who were known to the author through exposure or the work of previous authors.
Ticozzi was an honorary member of the
Accademia Carrara
The Accademia Carrara, (), officially Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo, is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, in Lombardy in northern Italy. The art gallery was established in about 1780 by , a Bergamasco collect ...
and the Atheneum of
Venice
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. Ticozzi also published
Giovanni Battista Armenini's sixteenth century treatise on painting: ''De veri precetti della pittura''.
Catalogue of monograms
Among the artists for which Ticozzi graphically reproduces the monograms are the following:
References
Dictionary of Art Historians*
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1762 births
1836 deaths
People from Como
Italian art historians
Artist authors
Biographers of artists