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Last Name Bianchi / Blancus / Plancus /
Given Name Giovanni Paolo Simone / Janus / Joannes /
alt. Names G. P. S. B. ; Plancus / Blancus / Blanco / Jani / Simon Planchi ;
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Year born 1693 in Rimini, now Italy
Year died 1775
Place of death buried in the church of Sant'Agostino in Rimini, now Italy
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Country of Activity Italy
Worked for Parere Sopra Il Porto Di Rimino (1765) ; De Conchis Minus Notis Liber (Rome 1760) ;
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Collaborators Ambrosius Besutius ; for his correspondence with Francesco Algarotti cf. also http://www.algarotti.uni-trier.de/single_letter.php?bnNR=B01565 ;
Techniques malacological, anatomical, and zoological etching ; genealogical copperplate engraving ;
Sample(s) http://art.findartinfo.com/art.asp?i=116&p=8&old=1 ; http://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Bianchi%2C%20Giovanni%2C%201693-1775%22%20AND%20
Archival sources http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=4C9XAAAAcAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=De+Conchis+Minus+Notis+Liber.+Roma:+In+Aedibus&ots=lciLtCtZU4&sig=o7hb5gNeozCw
Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Joannes Blancus, seu Janus Plancus, auctore anonymo (scilicet ipso Blanco) ; Manuel Lima: The Book of Trees (New York 2013: 60) ;
other Milanese printmaker, engr. & draughtsman; cf. http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=LblPC_A_xdoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=De+Conchis+Minus+Notis+Liber.+Roma:+In+Aedibus&ots=c9gJCg5C9j&sig=p-t0bCi2a8g8ZcaG0Alo4A6aGvg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
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