Fabio Berardi (engraver)

Fabio Berardi (1728-1788) was an Italian engraver of the Baroque period, active in Tuscany. He was born in Siena . He went to Venice when young, and trained under Joseph Wagner. Among other works, he engraved in 1767 a booklet of pictures about the life of emperor Francis I. He also engraved the following:

*#"St. Seraphinus worshipping the Cross" (1767)
*#"A Woman sleeping, surprised by a Sportsman" and "Four Pastoral Subjects" after Piazzetta.
*#"Isaac blessing Jacob" and a "Sacrifice of Gideon" after Pittoni
*#"Jacob and Rachel" after Giuseppe Varotti
*#"Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert" after J. Varana.
*# Six Views in Venice (1742); after Canaletto; engraved by Berardi and Wagner.

References

*cite book | first= Stefano| last= Ticozzi| year=1830| title= "Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d’ogni etá e d’ogni nazione"' (Volume 1)| editor = | pages= page 143 | publisher=Gaetano Schiepatti; Digitized by Googlebooks, Jan 24, 2007 | id= | url= http://books.google.com/books?id=0ownAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=Stefano+Ticozzi+Dizionario | authorlink=
*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume I: A-K)| editor = Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 113| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1| authorlink=

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