Giovanni Antonio Faldoni (24 April 1689 – c. 1770) was an Italian painter and engraver, citizen of the Republic of Venice.

He was born in Asolo, province of Treviso, and was active in Venice. He trained under a landscape painter named Antonio Luciani, and learned engraving with a burin from Egidio Sadeler, then Claude Mellan. He created a series of portraits of the Doges of Venice and procurators of St Mark and Knights of the Star of Gold.[1] He engraved a series of paintings, portraits, and busts of Roman Emperors for Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder.[2]

Exiled from Venice in 1765, he moved to Rome, where his traces are lost.

G. A. Faldoni, Bacco, 1740. From Count Anton Maris Zanetti's Delle Antiche Statue Greche E Romane, Che Nell'Antisala Della Libreria di San Marco, e in altri luoghi publici di Venezia si trovano, Venezia, 1740

References

  1. ↑ Catalogo di una raccolta di stampe antiche, Volume 2, by Marchese Luigi Malaspina di Sannazaro, page 372.
  2. ↑ Metropolitan Museum of Art, catalogue listing.


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