Giovacchino Cantini

Giovacchino Cantini (c. 1780-1844) was an Italian engraver, active in Florence as one of Raffaello Sanzio Morghen's most successful pupils. He engraved a "Virgin and Child, with Saints Sebastian & Anthony" after Fra Bartolommeo; a "Virgin with her hands folded" after Pompeo Batoni; "Judith with the Head of Holofernes after Allori" (1802); "The Holy Family" after Leonardo da Vinci; "St. Peter walking on the Sea" after Cigoli; and "Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti" after Vasari.

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