Stefano Ticozzi was an Italian

Italy

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 art historian.

He was born in Pasturo, near Como

Como

Como is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy.It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como....

, he wrote the three volumes published in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

 during 1830-1833 of the encyclopedic Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni età e d'ogni nazione (Dictionary of the architects, sculptors, painters, engravers in wood and stone, minters of medallions, mosaicists, jewelers of niello

Niello

Niello is a black mixture of copper, silver, and lead sulphides, used as an inlay on engraved or etched metal. It can be used for filling in designs cut from metal...

, and makers of intarsio work). The work was a then up-to-date assembly of biographical data and works of artists from Europe of the prior four centuries to the contemporary time, who were known to the author through exposure or the work of previous authors.

Ticozzi was an honorary member of the Academy of fine arts in Carrara

Carrara

Carrara is a city and comune in the province of Massa-Carrara , notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some west-northwest of Florence....

 and the Atheneum 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...

.

Catalogue of monograms

Among the artists for which Ticozzi graphically reproduces the monograms are the following: Adam, Veneziano Agostino, Cavaliere Cherubino Alberti

Cherubino Alberti

Cherubino Alberti , also called Borghegiano, was an Italian engraver and painter.-Biography:Alberti was born in 1553 in Borgo San Sepolcro, Tuscany , into family of artists...

, Enrico Aldegrever, Alberto Altorfer, Pomponio Amalteo

Pomponio Amalteo

Pomponio Amalteo was an Italian painter of the Venetian school.He was born at Motta di Livenza in Veneto. He was a pupil and son-in-law of Il Pordenone, whose style he closely imitated; he inherited Pordenone's studio at Friuli, where he led a long career...

, Jost Ammon, Andrea Appiani

Andrea Appiani

Andrea Appiani was an Italian neoclassical painter.-Biography:He was born in Milan. He had been intended to follow his father's career in medicine but instead entered the private academy of the painter Carlo Maria Giudici . He received instruction in drawing, copying mainly from sculpture and prints...

, Michele l'Asne, Roberto Audenard, Cesare de Avibus, Francesco Babel, Alessandro Badiale

Alessandro Badiale

Alessandro Badiale was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period, active in Bologna. He was a pupil of Flaminio Torre. Among his etchings are prints of Virgin seated with the Infant Jesus, between St. Philip Neri and St. Anthony of Padua, a Deposition and a Holy Family after Flaminio...

, Hans Baldung

Hans Baldung

Hans Baldung, known as Hans Baldung Grien/Grün was a German Renaissance artist in painting and printmaking in woodcut. He was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer.-Life:...

, Antonio Balestra

Antonio Balestra

Antonio Balestra was an Italian painter of the Rococo period.Born in Verona, he first apprenticed there with Giovanni Zeffio. By 1690 he moved to Venice, where he worked for three years under Antonio Bellucci, then moved to Bologna and then to paint in Carlo Maratta's workshop in Rome. In 1694, he...

, Domenico del Barbiere, Giovanni Guglielmo Bauer, Nicoló Beatricio or Beatricetto, Domenico Beccafumi, Hans Sebal Beham, Stefano della Bella

Stefano della Bella

Stefano della Bella was an Italian draughtsman and printmaker known for etchings of a great variety of subjects, including military and court scenes, landscapes, and lively genre scenes...

, Carlo Berghem, Cornelio Blecker, Bartholomeo Bohem, Giovanni Sebaldo Bohem (likely HS Beham above), Scheid Bolswert (Schelte a Bolswert), Domenico Bonavera, Orazio Borgianni

Orazio Borgianni

Orazio Borgianni was an Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-baroque periods. He was the stepbrother of the sculptor and architect Giulio Lasso....

, Abramo Bosse, Renato Boyvin (René Boyvin

René Boyvin

René Boyvin was an influential French engraver who lived in Angers.-Reference:Jacques Levron: René Boyvin, graveur angevin du 16e siècle, avec catalogue de son oeuvre et la reproduction de 114 estampes. Angers 1941.-Link:...

), Francesco Brizio

Francesco Brizio

Francesco Brizio was an Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School, active in the early-Baroque.He was also known as Nosadella and was born in Bologna. He was initially a pupil of Bartolommeo Passarotti, but then became a pupil under Agostino and Ludovico Carracci...

, Nicolo Bruyn, Simone Cantarino, Bernardo Castello

Bernardo Castello

Bernardo Castello was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist style, active mainly in Genoa and Liguria. He is mainly known as a portrait and historical painter.-Biography:...

, Fabricio Castello, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was an Italian Baroque artist, painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his elaborate engravings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le...

, Francesco Chauveau, Michele Cocxie, Claudio Coello

Claudio Coello

Claudio Coello was a Spanish Baroque painter. Influenced by many other artists, including Diego Velázquez who was also of Portuguese descent, Coello is considered the last great Spanish painter of the 17th century....

, Adriano Collaert, Giovanni Couvay, Luca Cranack

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Lucas Cranach the Elder , was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving...

, Teodoro Cruger, Teodoro Cuerenhet, van Culembac, Camillo Cungio, Corrado or Cornelio van Dalen, Giovanni Danet, Pietro Daret, Leone Darij, Carlo David, Bartolomeo Dolendo, Zaccaria Dolende, Gaspare Dughet, Alberto Durero, Adamo Elzkeimer, Episcopius

Episcopius

Episcopius is the name of:*Ludovicus Episcopius, Dutch-Flemish composer from the Franco-Flemish school*Nicolaus Episcopius, Swiss printer and publisher of the 16th century*Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian...

, Giacinto Espinosa, Bartolomeo Esteban Murillo, Guglielmo Fartorne, Francia, Agnese Frey, Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi

Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi was an Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period. Born in Florence, he was a pupil of the painter Francesco Furini, then moved to Rome, where he joined the Accademia di San Luca in 1652. He was an accomplished etcher and produced works for Leonardo Agostini’s...

, Filippo Galle, Natale Garnier, Antonio L Garnier, Giacinto Geminiani, Giacomo Ghein, Giorgio Ghisi

Giorgio Ghisi

Giorgio Ghisi was an Italian artist in engraving and painting. Born in Mantua, he trained with Marcantonio Raimondi and subsequently worked with Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp....

, Adamo Ghisi, Giovanni Battista Ghisi, Alberto Glockentom, Enrico Golzio, Carlo Gregori, Matteo Gruvenald, Martino Heemskerken, Cornelio Hevissen, Hisbin, Agostino Hirschfogel, G. H. Hodges, Giovanni Holbein, Sigismundo Holbein, Guglielmo Hondio, Enrico Hondio, Daniello Hopfer and his brother Lamberto Hopfer, Giovanni van Huctenburg, Cristoforo Iamnitzer, Francesco Xaverio Iungwiect, Hans Kaldung, Mario Kartaro, Bartolommeo Kilian, Luca Kilian, Antonio Lafrey, Lodovico Lana, Enrico Lautensack, Hans Sebald Lautensack

Hans Sebald Lautensack

Hans Sebald Lautensack, a German painter and etcher, was a son of Paul Lautensack, a painter of Bamberg, where he was born in 1524. Whilst he was yet a child his parents settled in Nuremberg, and there he lived during the greater portion of his life. In 1556 he was working in Vienna, where he died...

, Michele Leblon, Guglielmo Leewe, Hans Liefring, Renato Lochon, Guglielmo Lodge, Pietro Lombard, Michele Lucchese, Pietro Testa (il Lucchesino), Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality...

, Giorgio Mantovano , Bernardino Mei

Bernardino Mei

The Italian painter and engraver Bernardino Mei worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family....

, Met Matsys, Martino da Bologna, Cristofano Maurer, Micarino, Giuseppe Maria Mitelle, Mignot

Mignot

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, Girolamo Mocetti, Niccolo da Modena, Luigi Morales, Paolo Moreelsen, Morto da Feltre

Morto da Feltre

Morto da Feltre was an Italian painter of the Venetian school who worked at the close of the 15th century and beginning of the 16th.His real name appears to have been Pietro Luzzo, Pietro Luci or Lorenzo Luzzo; he is also known by the name Zarato or Zarotto, either from the place of his death or...

, Moyart, Pietro Vander Nolpe, Manro Oddi, Luca d'Olanda, Vaaer Ossanen, Giacomo Palma, Antonio Palomino, Maddalena Passe o Pass, Bartolommeo Passerotti, Gregorio o Giorgio Peius, Giorgio Penez, Luca Penni, Stefano Perac, Francesco Perrier, Persecouter (or Peter van Serwouter), Cornelio Poelemborg, Francesco Poilly, Pietro Quest, Marc'Antonio Raimondi, Silvestre da Ravenna, Marco Ravenna, Rembrandt, Gaspare Reverdino, Giuseppe Ribera, Sebastiano Ricci

Sebastiano Ricci

Sebastiano Ricci was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting.-Early years:He was born in Belluno, son...

, Marco Ricci

Marco Ricci

Marco Ricci was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was the nephew of Sebastiano Ricci. After receiving his first instruction in art from his uncle, he visited Rome, where he was for some years occupied in drawing vedute....

, Guglielmo Roger, Salvatore Rosa, Martino Rota, Guido Ruggieri, Giusto Sadeler, Hans Saenredan, Andrea Salmincio, Raffaello Sanzio, Raffaello Scaminozzi, Hans Scauflig, Giorgio Federico Schmid, Martino Schoenio or Schoen, Giovanni Schoorel (or Jan Schoorel), Adamo Schweikart, Giovanni Sheustellin, Cornelio Sichem (or Cornelius van Sichem), Virgilio Solis, ossia Teodoro Starem Dietrich, Tobia Stimmer, Giovanni Cristoforo Stimmer, Vito Stossio, Cornelio Swanembourg, Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta

Antonio Tempesta was an Italian painter and engraver, a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp. He was born and trained in Florence and painted in a variety of styles, influenced to some degree by "Contra-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism...

, Teniers

Teniers

Teniers was a family of celebrated Flemish painters that included:*David Teniers the Elder *David Teniers the Younger *David Teniers III...

, Teodoro van Thulden, Giovanni Valdes Leal, Giovanni Luigi Valesio, Luca Valdes, Tiziano Vecellio, Antonio Vaterloo, Cesare Vecellio

Cesare Vecellio

Cesare Vecellio was an Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance, active in Venice.He was the cousin of the painter Titian. Like Titian, he was born at Cadore in the Veneto. He accompanied Titian to Augsburg in 1548, and seems to have worked as his assistant. Many of Cesare's pictures were...

, Marco Veccellio, Giulio Cesare Venenti

Giulio Cesare Venenti

Giulio Cesare Venenti was an Italian engraver of the Baroque period.He was born in Bologna, where he first apprenticed under Francesco Brizio and Reni. He is best known for engravings of painters of Northern Italy including Parmigianino, Domenico Maria Canuti, and Annibale Carracci, including his...

, Niccola Vicentino, Enea Vico

Enea Vico

Enea Vico was an Italian engraver.Vico was born in Parma. He specialized in grotesque engravings based on antique paintings. Vico made engravings for Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and later Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara. He died in Ferrara in 1567 .-References:...

, Francesco Villamena

Francesco Villamena

Francesco Villamena was an Italian engraver and artist.Villamena was born in Assisi. He studied under Cornelis Cort. Villamena produced primarily works of religious and historical subjects. He died in Rome in 1624.-References:...

, Niccolo Giovanni Visscher, Giovan Giorgio Vliet, Pietro Voeriot, Michele Volgemut, Antonio Vormazia, Luca Vosterman (or Luc Wosterman, Vovilleminot (or Wovilleminot), and Martino Zagel.