Giovanni Battista Casanova (1722-1795) was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Neoclassic period. Year 1722 ( MDCCXXII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1795 ( MDCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Printmaking is the Process of making artworks by Printing, normally on Paper. Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and He was brother of Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, and was born at Venice. Francesco Giuseppe Casanova (1727-1802 was an Italian painter and a younger brother of Giacomo Casanova. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the He studied painting under Israel Silvestre and Dietrich at Dresden, and went in 1752 to Rome, where, under the tuition of Anton Raphael Mengs, he became an accomplished artist in pencil and crayon. Israel Silvestre ( Nancy, 13 August 1621 &ndash 11 October 1691 in Paris) called the Younger to distinguish Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich ( October 30, 1712 &ndash April 23, 1774) German painter was born at Weimar, where he was brought Dresden (etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest, Drježdźany is the Capital city of the German Anton Raphael Mengs ( March 12, 1728 &ndash June 29, 1779) was an eminent German painter active in Rome Madrid and Saxony who became one Among other works he designed the plates to Winckelmann's Monumenti antichi. Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( December 9, 1717 - June 8, 1768) a German Art historian and Archaeologist, He was appointed professor in the Academy at Dresden in 1764.
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