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STEFANO DELLA BELLA
Taken from a book published by the Metropolitan Musuem of Art, Distrubuted by the New York Graphic Society, and written by Phyllis Dearborn Massar.
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BiographyBorn in Florence in 1610, Della Bella became one of the most admired printmakers of the seventeenth century - an artist of unstinting productivity, superb style, and wide-ranging subject matter. He was a maker of landscapes, amrines, city scenes, animal studies, mythological subjects, and fantasies. An outstanding man rather than a studio practitioner, Della Bella used his sketchbook and etching needle the way a magazine reporter today uses his camera. he was an on-the-spot recorder of events that strike us both for their elegance of seeing and their accuracy as documents - such things as the lavish theatrical performances and pagents of the Medici in florence, aspects of daily life in Rome and Paris, and realities on the far-flung battlefields of the Thrity Years' War. Whether working up a minute likeness of Apollo and Daphne or a vast panorama of Paris with a countable 451 souls populating it, Dell Bella offers exquisite detail and beguiling image.
Taken from a book published by the Metropolitan Musuem of Art, Distrubuted by the New York Graphic Society, and written by Phyllis Dearborn Massar.