Giovanni Battista Brostoloni

Giovanni Battista Brostoloni (born c. 1726) was an Italian engraver, born in Venice. He was a pupil of Joseph Wagner. He engraved two Portraits of Pope Benedict XIV and a St. Theresa in Adoration. He also produced twenty vedute of Venice (1763) and twelve large plates of Ceremonies of the Election of Doge and his Marriage with Adriatic –all after Canaletto.

References

Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. No. 4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 187.

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