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| Reference: | S39615 |
| Author | Giacomo FRANCO |
| Year: | 1568 ca. |
| Measures: | 112 x 158 mm |
€150.00
| Reference: | S39615 |
| Author | Giacomo FRANCO |
| Year: | 1568 ca. |
| Measures: | 112 x 158 mm |
€150.00
Description
Engraving, circa 1568, without signature.
From the book titled Illustrium philosophorum et sapientum effigies ab eorum numistatibus extractae, published by Girolamo Olgiati in 1568 and the reprinted in 1580, 1583 and 1680.
Some of the plate are signed with Giacomo Franco monogram (letters IAF).
Good impression, with margins, perfect condition.
Giacomo FRANCO (Venezia o Urbino 1550 - Venezia 1620)
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Designer, engraver, printer, dealer and publisher of books and prints. Active in Venice. Record of death 28 June 1620. He was described as 'Intagliator di rame' in the necrology of S. Moise; in his will he described himself as 'dessegnador' (Bode). Illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Franco, il Semolei. He may have begun at his father's shop 'In Venetia a Santa Fosca'. By 1595 he was established 'all'Insegna del Sole' in the Frezzeria. 1579 a 'Jacopo Franco' inscribed in the Arte dei Stampatori e Librari of Venice (Brown). Giacomo was matriculated in gild of painters in Venice, 1606-1619 (Favaro). In 16 November 1591 he obtained a privilege for a "libro delli habiti alla venetiana". 20 July 1596, Franco acquired a privilege for a writing book and for a book of sewing models (mostre da cucir), with 16 woodcuts and 8 engravings (Nuova inventione de diverse mostre, Venice 1596, Strange, no.24, p.227). A privilege granted 17 June 1597 for a copper plate of the miracle-making Madonna of Treviso. Another privilege, 15 November 1597, for Giuseppe Rosaccio's Il viaggio di Venetia a Costantinopoli.
Franco's first dated print 1572. Executed plates for Nelli, the Bertelli and others. He specialized in prints showing Venice, its life and customs. He inherited at least some of his father's plates and acquired a number of plates which had originally carried the address of Orazio and Luca Bertelli (e.g. 1582 Agostino Carracci engravings after Veronese and Tintoretto).
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Giacomo FRANCO (Venezia o Urbino 1550 - Venezia 1620)
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Designer, engraver, printer, dealer and publisher of books and prints. Active in Venice. Record of death 28 June 1620. He was described as 'Intagliator di rame' in the necrology of S. Moise; in his will he described himself as 'dessegnador' (Bode). Illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Franco, il Semolei. He may have begun at his father's shop 'In Venetia a Santa Fosca'. By 1595 he was established 'all'Insegna del Sole' in the Frezzeria. 1579 a 'Jacopo Franco' inscribed in the Arte dei Stampatori e Librari of Venice (Brown). Giacomo was matriculated in gild of painters in Venice, 1606-1619 (Favaro). In 16 November 1591 he obtained a privilege for a "libro delli habiti alla venetiana". 20 July 1596, Franco acquired a privilege for a writing book and for a book of sewing models (mostre da cucir), with 16 woodcuts and 8 engravings (Nuova inventione de diverse mostre, Venice 1596, Strange, no.24, p.227). A privilege granted 17 June 1597 for a copper plate of the miracle-making Madonna of Treviso. Another privilege, 15 November 1597, for Giuseppe Rosaccio's Il viaggio di Venetia a Costantinopoli.
Franco's first dated print 1572. Executed plates for Nelli, the Bertelli and others. He specialized in prints showing Venice, its life and customs. He inherited at least some of his father's plates and acquired a number of plates which had originally carried the address of Orazio and Luca Bertelli (e.g. 1582 Agostino Carracci engravings after Veronese and Tintoretto).
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