Luigi Rados

An 1811 engraving of balloonist Sophie Blanchard by Luigi Rados

Luigi Rados (1773–1840) was an Italian engraver.

Life

Rados was born in Parma and educated at the city's academy.[1]

He collaborated extensively with the French painter Jean-François Bosio, who worked under the name Giovanni Battista Bosio while in Milan under the French occupation. Rados' plates after Bosio include a portrait of the French viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais (1807) and illustrations for an updated Milanese equivalent of Carracci's Cries of Bologna, published under the title of I costumi di Milano e suoi circondari. Rados also engraved many of the portraits drawn by Bosio for the second volume of the Serie di vite e ritratti de'famosi personaggi degli ultimi tempi, a three-volume collection of illustrated biographies published in Milan between 1815 and 1818. [2]

References

  1. Bryan 1889
  2. Draper 1978

Sources

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