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- Pietro Stefanoni
- Also known as
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Pietro Stefanoni
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primary name: Stefanoni, Pietro
- Details
- individual; dealer/auction house; printmaker; Italian; Male
- Other dates
- 1557-1642 (c.)
- Biography
- Dealer in prints, drawings, antiquities and medals; also probably an engraver. He was born in Valstagna, near Vicenza, in c.1557. First documented in Rome in 1607 (so Cambiaso Angeli). In 1611 his address was given as 'ad Cursum prope Montem Brianzi' and with 'bottegha a piazza Nicosia' (Lanciani and Bertolotti 1881). He is described as 'antiquario' in documents of 1611 and 1629. In Francesco Bertelli's preface to his edition of Pietro Bertelli's Theatrum urbium italicarum (1629), he acknowledges help in collecting new town plans, including "Pietro Stefanoni Eccellentissimo Antiquario et amico delle imprese honorate" who had supplied him with a plan of Gaeta (L. Nuti, Ritratti di Città, Venice 1996, p.194, n.63).
His address (as 'P S F') appears on prints by Schiaminossi, Brizio, Agostino and Lodovico Carracci, Guido Reni, Fialetti and Ciamberlano (see 163.a.32 for his drawing book). The 6 Monelli has Stefanoni's 'fecit', indicating that he was himself an engraver (Bartsch XVIII.170.1 and Bartsch XVIII.269.31).
Two letters from S. to Aldrovandi in Bologna have been found by Naoko Takahatake (see her 2006 thesis on the print industry in Bologna, p.115), which gives his address in Rome as being in the shop of Giovanni Orlandi (in 1599). He died in Rome c.1642.
- Bibliography
- M. Bury, 'The Print in Italy 1550-1625', British Museum, London 2001, p.234
I. Rossi, "Pietro Stefanoni e Ulisse Aldrovandi: Relazioni Erudite tra Bologna e Napoli," in 'Studi di Memofonte', online journal, August 2012, pp. 3-30.
I. Rossi, "Sulle tracce dell' 'immenso studio' di Pietro Stefanoni: Entità e dispersione", in F. Grisolia (ed.), 'Horti Hesperidum: Studi di storia del collezionismo e della storiografica artistica', Rome, 2014, pp. 141-206.