Rocco Pozzi (died c. 1780), was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period, active around 1750.
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.
Pozzi drawings appear in a 1757 publication by Ottavio Antonio Bayardi. [1]
The Accademia di San Luca is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its first principe or director; the statutes were ratified in 1607. Other founders included Girolamo Muziano and Pietro Olivieri. The Academy was named for Luke the Evangelist, the patron saint of painters.
Events from the year 1578 in art.
Ottavio Leoni was an Italian painter and printmaker of the early-Baroque, active mainly in Rome.
Events from the year 1700 in art.
Stefano Pozzi was an Italian painter, designer, draughtsman, and decorator whose career was spent largely in Rome.
Events from the year 1780 in art.
Events from the year 1768 in art.
Events from the year 1710 in art.
Events from the year 1675 in art.
Events from the year 1699 in art.
Events from the year 1691 in art.
Events from the year 1673 in art.
Events from the year 1662 in art.
Le Vite de’ Pittori, Scultori et Architetti. Dal Pontificato di Gregorio XII del 1572 in fino a’ tempi di Papa Urbano VIII nel 1642 is an art history book by Giovanni Baglione, first published in 1642. It represents an encyclopedic compendium of biographies of the artists active in Rome during late Mannerism and early Baroque. Baglione was a Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian, best remembered for his writings and his acrimonious involvement with the artist Caravaggio, by whom he was nonetheless greatly influenced.
Lodovico Leoni (1531–1606) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, mainly active in Rome. He was also a medallist, and coin-engraver. Other sources cite his name as Luigi Leone
Ottavio Semini was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance.
Antonio Baldi was an Italian painter and engraver of the late-Baroque period. He was born at Cava de' Tirreni in the kingdom of Naples. After training under Solimena, he became a pupil of Andreas Magliar and studied the art of engraving. He chiefly resided at Naples, where he occasionally worked as a scenic designer in collaboration with Vincenzo Re. He died in Naples in 1768.
Giuseppe Aprile was an Italian castrato singer and music teacher. He was also known as 'Sciroletto' or 'Scirolino'.
The Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte is an eight-volume book of engravings of the findings from excavating the ruins of Herculaneum in the Kingdom of Naples. It was published between 1757 and 1792, and copies were given to selected recipients across Europe. Despite the title, the Antichità di Ercolano shows objects from all the excavations the Bourbons undertook around the Gulf of Naples. These include Pompeii, Stabiae, and two sites in Herculaneum: Resina and Portici.
Camillo Paderni, or Camillus Paderni, lived from c. 1715 to 1781. He was an illustrator, excavator, and curator at the Museum Herculanense, as part of King Charles VII of Naples royal Palace in Portici, and a Roman.