Andrea Andreani
Andrea Andreani (1540–1623) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours.
Andreani was born and generally active in Mantua about 1540 (Brulliot says 1560) and died at Rome in 1623. His engravings are scarce and valuable, and are chiefly copies of Mantegna, Albrecht Dürer, Parmigianino and Titian. The most remarkable of his works are Mercury and Ignorance, the Deluge, Pharaoh's Host Drowned in the Red Sea (after Titian), the Triumph of Caesar (after Mantegna), and Christ retiring from the judgment-seat of Pilate after a relief by Giambologna.<ref name="EB1911">Template:EB1911</ref> He was active 1584–1610 in Florence.<ref>ULAN</ref>
Andreani's work is held in several museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Cleveland Museum of Art,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Ackland Art Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Clark Art Institute,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Harvard Art Museums,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Victoria and Albert Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Albright–Knox Art Gallery,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the National Gallery of Canada,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Davis Museum at Wellesley College,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Cooper Hewitt,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the University of Michigan Museum of Art,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Bowdoin College Museum of Art,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Philadelphia Museum of Art,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Princeton University Art Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the British Museum.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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[edit]- "Andrea Andreani" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th Edition, Vol. II, p. 20.
- Getty ULAN entry.