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Last Name Villamena
Given Name Francesco
alt. Names F. V. ;
Marriage Caterina (1xxx-16xx) in 1614 ;
Children 1 son and 4 daughters
Year born 1564 in Assisi, Italy
Year died 1624
Place of death Rome
Father's occupation
Relatives
Education Cornelius Cort
Country of Activity Italy
Worked for Giovanni Pietro Olina ; Accademia dei Lincei ; frontispiece & Galileo portrait in Galileo Galilei: Il Saggiatore (The Assayer) (Rome 1623) ;
Patronage Cassiano dal Pozzo
Collaborators ->Vincenzo Leonardi 81xxx-1xxx) ; March. Giustiniani (1xxx-1xxx) ;
Techniques natural copperplate engraving, painting, and drawing ; portraits ;
Sample(s) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Francesco_Villamena?uselang=de ;
Archival sources
Published sources AKL ; ThB 34 1940: 365 ; Freedman: Lynx 2002: 55 ; Nagler XX ; Kühn-Hattenhauer 1979 ; Camiz 1994 ; Olina: Uccelliera (aviary) 1622/6 ;
other F. V. made a well-known portrait of Galileo Galilei in 1623: http://www.ssplprints.com/image/98272/villamena-francesco-galileo-galilei-italian-astronomer-and-physicist-1623 .
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