Cesare Fantetti

Cesare Fantetti (16601740) was an Italian engraver.

Fantetti was born at Florence about the year 1660. He was apprenticed in Rome. He most likely worked out of one of the many shops that sprung up with the growth of the print market.[1]

Works

Fantetti engraved several plates, after his own designs and those of other masters. Conjointly with Pietro Aquila, he engraved the plates from the paintings by Raphael in the Vatican, called Raphael's Bible, thirty-seven of the series being executed by Fantetti, and the remainder by Aquila and some by Carlo Maratta.[2] He also engraved the following prints:

References

  1. "Cesare Fantetti Brief Biography (Italian)". Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  2. Imagines Veteris Ac Novi Testamenti a Raphaele Sanctio Urbinate In Vaticani Palatii Xystis Mira Picturae Elegantia Expressae, illustrated by Carlo Maratti, Pietro Aquila, Cesare Fantetti, published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi and I.I. de Rubeis, 1675.


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