Giovanni Girolamo Frezza

For the Italian film actor of the 1980s, see Giovanni Frezza.

Giovanni Girolamo Frezza (1659-1730) was an Italian engraver. He was born in Canemorto, near Tivoli, and died in Rome. He was instructed in engraving at Rome by Arnold van Westerhout.

His engravings include:

• Frescoes by Francesco Albani in the Verospi Palace.
• Seventeen plates depicting pictures in the church of Santa Maria in Montesanto at Rome by Niccolo Berrettoni.
• The Virgin suckling the Infant after Lodovico Carracci.
• Holy Family, Assumption of the Virgin, The Twelve Months, Judgment of Paris after Carlo Maratti.
• The Riposo in Egypt called the Zingarella; after Correggio.
• The Descent of the Holy Ghost after Reni.
• Polyphemus on rock, and Galatea and her Nymphs & Polyphemus hurling rock at Acis and Galatea after Sisto Badalocchio from Palazzo Farnese ceiling.
• " V.P. Ioseph Anchieta Soc Iesv in Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil

References

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 526. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: location (link)