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Valerio Spada (1613–1688) was an Italian printmaker.[1]
Life and work
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Spada was born in Colle di Val d'Elsa, Tuscany. He Studied drawing with Lorenzo Lippi.[1]
He was a draughtsman, etcher and calligrapher, and also worked as a public scrivener and teacher of calligraphy.[1]
Collections
[edit]Spada's work is held in the following permanent collections:
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois[2]
- British Museum, London[1]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York[3]
- Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts[4]
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam[5]
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London (as designer,[6] and as engraver[7])
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.[8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Valerio Spada". British Museum. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
- ↑ "Valerio Spada". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
- ↑ "Results for "Valerio Spada" - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
- ↑ "Harvard Art Museums". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
- ↑ "Search". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 2025-08-23.
- ↑ "Search Results | V&A Explore the Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
- ↑ "Search Results | V&A Explore the Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
- ↑ "Valerio Spada". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-22.
Further reading
[edit]- Phyllis Dearbon Massar, Valerio Spada, Seventeenth-Century Florentine Calligrapher and Draughtsman, Master Drawings, vol.19 no.3, 1981, pp.251–75+319–44
- Phyllis Dearborn Massar, The Prints of Valerio Spada - I, Print Quarterly, vol.3 no.3, 1986, pp.217–38
- Phyllis Dearborn Massar, The Prints of Valerio Spada - II, Print Quarterly, vol.4 no.1, 1987, pp.19–39
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