Domenico Aspari

Topographical map of Milan as it supposedly was in 1158, drawn by Aspari in 1778.

Domenico Aspari, who was born at Milan in 1746, studied under Valdrighi at Parma, and there executed some decorative paintings for the Ducal Palace. On his return to Milan, he almost entirely gave up painting in order to devote his attention to engraving, forming his style from that of Piranesi: in this branch of art he was very successful. His masterpiece of painting is the 'Madonna and Child enthroned, with Saints,' which he executed for the church of Osnago. His portrait, by himself, is in the Milan Gallery. He died in 1831.

Of his engravings we may mention the following :

• The Flight into Egypt; after a picture said to he hy Correggio.
• The Last Supper; after Leonardo da Vinci.
• M. Peregrina Amoretti; after Boroni.
• Twenty-three Views of Milan.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "ASPARI, Domenico" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886-1889 publication now in the public domain.

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Date of death	1831
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