Antonio Baratta

LC name authority rec.nr93039730

LC Heading: Baratti, Antonio, 1724-1787

Biography:

Baratti [Baratta], Antonio

(b Belluno, 7 Jan 1724; d Venice, 28 July 1787).

Italian printmaker. A highly prolific engraver and etcher, he frequented the Venetian workshop of the engraver and print publisher Joseph Wagner (1708–80), later succeeding Giuliano Giampiccoli as the head of the Remondini workshop at Bassano. Gifted with considerable technical ability, Baratti had a part in illustrating a great number of costly publications, mostly Venetian, and he engraved almost one thousand plates for the Livorno edition of the Encyclopédie (1770–79). His most famous prints are the four sheets illustrating the celebrations held in Venice in 1782 to honour the visit of the Comte and Comtesse du Nord (Grand Duke Paul and Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna of Russia). He collaborated with other artists on the Via Crucis published by Wagner in 1779, engraved numerous portraits of artists and scholars and also executed religious subjects after Guido Reni, Veronese, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and Francesco Vanni, genre subjects after Giorgio Giacoboni (b before 1739; d 1777) and landscapes after Paolo Monaldi. Baratti’s pupils included Antonio Sandi.

(Dario Succi. "Baratti, Antonio." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed December 2, 2015,)