Isabella Piccini
Isabella Piccini | |
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| Born | Elisabetta Piccini[1] 1644[2] |
| Died | 29 April 1732[2] Venice, Republic of Venice |
| Nationality | Italian[2] |
| Known for | Etching Engraving Illustration |
Isabella Piccini (born Elisabetta Piccini)[1] was an Italian artist and nun. She worked in the mediums of etching, engraving, and illustration.
Life and work
Piccini was born in Venice in 1644.[2] Her father was etcher and engraver Guglielmo Piccini.[3] He trained Piccini in engraving and illustration in the style of the great masters such as Peter Paul Rubens and Titian.[1] Piccini became a Franciscan nun in 1666, joining the Convent of Santa Croce. Upon joining, she changed her name to Sister Isabella.[1]
Prominent Italians commissioned works from her, including portraits and religious artworks. Giovanni Antonio Remondini distributed her prints throughout Europe.[4] All income she made was split between her convent and her family.[1]
Notable collections
- Title Page Dittionario Italiano, e Francese Del Signor Veneroni, 1644–1734, Metropolitan Museum of Art[5]
Gallery
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Vita beatae Zitae virginis Lucensis, ex vetustissimo codice m.s. fidelitèr transumpta.Ferrara: Typographia Filoniana, 1688 -
Engraving of Saint Jovan Vladimir, 1690 -
Cavallo imperfetto del Polesine, 1692 -
Simboli predicabili : estratti da sacri evangeli che corrono nella quadragesima : delineati con morali, & eruditi discorsi, 1692 -
Portrait of poet Ottavio de' Rossi
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References
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- ^ a b c d e "Isabella Piccini and Angela Baroni, 18th-century engravers". Graphic Arts. 9 November 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Discover print artist, draftsman, etcher Isabella Piccini". RKD. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
- ^ Michael Bryan (1816). A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: From the Revival of the Art Under Cimabue, and the Alledged Discovery of Engraving by Finiguerra, to the Present Time : with the Ciphers, Monograms, and Marks, Used by Each Engraver, and an Ample List of Their Principal Works, Together with Two Indexes, Alphabetical and Chronological, to which is Prefixed, an Introduction, Containing a Brief Account of the Painters of Antiquity. Carpenter and Son; J. Booker; and Whittingham and Arliss. p. 201.
- ^ Delia Gaze; Maja Mihajlovic; Leanda Shrimpton (1997). Dictionary of Women Artists: Artists, J-Z. Taylor & Francis. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-884964-21-3.
- ^ "Title Page Dittionario Italiano, e Francese Del Signor Veneroni". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
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