Giovanni Francesco Venturini

Giovanni Francesco Venturini (1650–1710) was an Italian printmaker of the Baroque period.

Villa Medici with the Medici lions; etching by Venturini 1691.

He was born in Rome. From the style of his engraving, it is probable that he was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi. He etched several plates from the works of Italian masters, among them the following :

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  • Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 652.
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