Giovanni Agnolo Canini
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Giovanni Agnolo Canini (1617-1666) was an Italian designer and engraver born at Rome. He was a pupil of Domenichino and afterwards of Antonio Barbalonga.
He painted some altar-pieces at Rome, including two admired pictures for the church of San Martino a Monti, representing the martyrdom of St. Stephen and of St. Bartholomew. Having accompanied Cardinal Chigi to France, he was encouraged by the minister Colbert to carry into execution his project of designing from medals, antique gems and similar sources a series of portraits of the most illustrious characters of antiquity, accompanied with memoirs; but shortly after the commencement of the undertaking Canini died at Rome. The work, however, was prosecuted by his brother Marcantonio, who, with the assistance of Jean Picard and Valet, completed and published it in 1699, under the title of Iconografia di Giovanni Agnolo Canini. It contains 50 engravings. A reprint in Italian and French appeared at Amsterdam in 1731.
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