Giuseppe Camerata was an Italian

Italy

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 miniature painter and engraver.
He was born at Frascati

Frascati

Frascati is a town and comune in the province of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is located south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills close to the ancient city of Tusculum. Frascati is closely associated with science, being the location of several international scientific...

 or at Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

, the son of G. Camerata, a painter of some reputation, and studied under Gregorio Lazzarini

Gregorio Lazzarini

Gregorio Lazzarini was an Italian painter, mostly of religious subjects, and those from history and mythology.Born in Venice, he initially trained with the Genovese painter Francesco Rosa, Girolamo Forabosco, and with the studio of Pietro della Vecchia. He joined the painters' guild in Venice in...

. He learnt the engraving from Giovanni Cattini, and after visiting Vienna

Vienna

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 in 1742, was in 1751 invited to assist in engraving the plates for the Dresden Gallery, and was there made principal engraver to the Court. He visited Italy again in later life, and subsequently came to Munich

Munich

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, where he settled for a time in 1763. He afterwards became professor in the Academy at Dresden

Dresden

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, where he died.

Portraits

• Marco Foscarini, Doge of Venice
  Venice
  Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
  
   and former patron of Piranesi
  Giovanni Battista Piranesi
  Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" .-His Life:...
  
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• Simone Cantarini
  Simone Cantarini
  Simone Cantarini , also known as Simone da Pesaro, was an Italian painter and etcher of the Bolognese School of painting.Cantarini was born in Oropezza near Pesaro, then part of the Papal States....
  
  , Procurator of St. Mark.
• Sebastiano Bombelli
  Sebastiano Bombelli
  Sebastiano Bombelli was an Italian painter, mainly active in Venice, during the Baroque period.Bombelli was born in Udine, where he was apprenticed to his father, Valentino Bombelli, and his godfather, Girolamo Lugaro. He is claimed by some to have studied with Guercino...
  
  , the painter.

Subjects from Dresden Gallery

• Parable of the Talents; Parable of the Lost Piece of Silver; Parable of the Prodigal Son; David with the Head of Goliath; Infant Bacchus; after Domenico Fetti
  Domenico Fetti
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• Holy Family; after Giulio Cesare Procaccini
  Giulio Cesare Procaccini
  Giulio Cesare Procaccini was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early Baroque era in Milan.-Biography:Born in Bologna he was son of the Mannerist painter Ercole Procaccini the Elder and brother of Camillo Procaccini and Carlo Antonio Procaccini...
  
  
• St. Roch aiding the Plague-stricken; after Camillo Procaccini
  Camillo Procaccini
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• St. Roch distributing Alms and Assumption of the Virgin after Annibale Carracci
  Annibale Carracci
  Annibale Carracci was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early career:Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna, and in all likelihood first apprenticed within his family...
  
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• Adulteress before Christ; after Bartolomeo Biscaino
  Bartolomeo Biscaino
  Bartolomeo Biscaino was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native Genoa. He was the son, and first a pupil of Giovanni Andrea Biscaino. He afterwards became a pupil of Valerio Castelli. His career was cut short by the plague, which visited Genoa, to which his father and...
  
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• Chastity of Joseph; after Simone Cantarini
  Simone Cantarini
  Simone Cantarini , also known as Simone da Pesaro, was an Italian painter and etcher of the Bolognese School of painting.Cantarini was born in Oropezza near Pesaro, then part of the Papal States....
  
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• Old and New Testament; after A. Baccari.
• Mary Magdalene after Pompeo Batoni
  Pompeo Batoni
  Pompeo Girolamo Batoni was an Italian painter whose style incorporated elements of the French Rococo, Bolognese classicism, and nascent Neoclassicism.-Biography:He was born in Lucca, the son of a goldsmith, Paolino Batoni...
  
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• A half-length figure, with a beard and Another half-length, the companion; after Dietrich
  Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
  Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich was a German painter and art administrator. In his own works, he was adept at imitating many earlier artists, but never developed a style of his own.-Biography:...
  
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• Mary Magdalene; after Van der Werf.