Anna Maria Vaiani
Anna Maria Vaiani (or Anna Maria Vaiana) (died ca. 1655)[1] was an Italian engraver.
Anna Maria Vaiani | |
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Portrait of Anna Maria Vaiani by Claude Mellan | |
Born | 1604 |
Died | ca. 1655[1] |
Known for | Engraving |
Spouse(s) | Jacques Courtois |
Life and work
Anna Maria Vaiani was born in Florence in 1604. Her father Alessandro Vaiani was an artist.[2] She lived and worked in Rome. In 1647 she married Jacques Courtois, another artist, but it was not a success.
Vaiani specialized in botanical engravings, although her first recorded work was completion of her father's paintings in the Pope’s Capella Segreta in Rome.[2]
Vaiani exchanged letters with Galileo Galilei from 1630 to 1638.[3] She acquired Cardinal Francesco Barberini as her patron through Galileo's influence. She was one of the artists who contributed copper-plate etchings in 1633 to illustrate Giovanni Battista Ferrari’s De florum cultura that was based on Barberini's botanic garden.[2]
References
- "ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)". Getty. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- Batsaki, Yota; Tchikine, Anatole; Celnik, Leib; Chaivaranon, Ariana. "Margaret Mee: Portraits of Plants". Dumbarton Oaks. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- Pietro Greco (19 April 2018). Galileo Galilei, The Tuscan Artist. Springer. p. 350. ISBN 978-3-319-72032-6.