Pietro Antonio Novelli

Novelli, Pietro Antonio (Italian painter and engraver, 1729-1804)

LC name authority rec. nr96013372

LC Heading: Novelli, Pietro Antonio, 1729-1804

found: Thieme-Becker, 1931 (Novelli, Pietro Antonio, painter, etcher and poet in Venice, b. 1729, d. 1804 in Venice)

Biography:

NOVELLI, Pietro Antonio III

Italian, 18th century, male.

Born 1729; died 13 January 1804, in Venice.

Painter, watercolourist, engraver. Mythological subjects, allegorical subjects, portraits.

Pietro Antonio Novelli III appears to have worked principally in Venice. As an engraver, he worked mainly on religious subjects, produced in the form of etchings. He was also a poet.

("NOVELLI, Pietro Antonio III." Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed December 2, 2015)