Giovanni Marco Pitteri

Self-portrait

Giovanni Marco Pitteri (1703–1767) was an Italian engraver of the late Baroque period in his native Venice. He engraved densely incised portraits with shading of almost photographic quality.[1] He is said to have trained under Giovanni Antonio Faldoni, and to have engraved in the style of Mellan.[2] He engraved a drawing of Saint Philip by Piazzetta, in whose studio he worked.[3] He had as one of his pupils Giovanni Domenico Lorenzi.[4]

Gallery

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  Saint John the Evangelist
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  Saint Andrew
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  Saint Simon the Zealot
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  Saint Matthew
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  Saint Mark
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  Saint Francis of Paola (etching after Federico Bencovich)
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  Martyrdom of Saint Bartholemew, after Ribera (1750, copper engraving)
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  Saint Agnes, after Ribera (1750, copper engraving)
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  Saint Francis of Assisi, after Ribera (1750, copper engraving)
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  Liberation of Saint Peter, after Ribera (1750, copper engraving)

References

1. Milizia, Francesco (1822). Remondini Tip. Editore (ed.). Dizionario delle Belle Arti del Disegno y Estratto in Gran Parte dalla Enciclopedia Metodica da Francesco Milizia, Seconda Edizione, Tomo Secondo. Bassano, Italy. p. 52.
2. Abecedario de P.J. Mariette: et autres notes inédites de cet amateur sur les Arts et les Artistes, Volume 4, by Pierre Jean Mariette, Philippe de Chennevières, Anatole de Montaiglon; Publisher: JB Dumoulin, Quai des Agustins #13, Paris; 1857-1858; page 184.
3. On exhibit at Museum of Fine Arts of San Francisco
4. Le vite dei pittori, scultori e architetti veronesi (1891). page 434. Diego Zannandreis, Giuseppe Biadego