Giovanni Francesco Venturini

Villa Medici with the Medici lions; etching by Venturini 1691.

Giovanni Francesco Venturini (1650–1710) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

He was born in Rome. From the style of his engraving, it is probable that he was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi. He etched several plates from the works of Italian masters, among them the following :

• A set of Plates; after Polidoro da Caravaggio.
• Diana and her Nymphs; after Domenichino.
• The Pulpit of S. Peter's; after Bernini.
• A partial bird's-eye View of Rome.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 652.

External links

• Media related to Giovanni Francesco Venturini at Wikimedia Commons