Rocco Pozzi

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Rocco Pozzi sketch ca. 1757

Rocco Pozzi (died c. 1780), was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period, active around 1750.

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Biography

He was the brother of Stefano Pozzi. He engraved several of the plates for the Museo Florentino, and executed prints for the Antiquities of Herculaneum published in Naples. He became court engraver to the King of Naples, and died about 1780.

Works

Pozzi drawings appear in a 1757 publication by Ottavio Antonio Bayardi. [1]

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References

  1. Ottavio Antonio Bayardi (1757). "Le pitture antiche d'Ercolano e contorni incise con qualche spiegazione. Tomo primo".