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Andrea Scacciati<break strength="x-strong"/> (Florence <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1725</say-as>-<say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1771</say-as>)<break strength="x-strong"/> Saint Antoninus Driving Away Two False Beggars, <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1766</say-as>-<say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1771</say-as><break strength="x-strong"/> Etching and wash<break strength="strong"/> 282 x 402 millimeters<break strength="x-strong"/> <p>Engraver and designer, Andrea Scacciati trained in Florence at the workshop of Johann Adam Schweickart. His vast activity was mainly dedicated to the reproduction of works by great artists, through etching combined with wash, of which he was one of the first and most skilled interpreters in Italy.</p> <p>The first engraver of the Grand Ducal Galleries of Florence, in 1766 he was commissioned to reproduce the drawings in the Uffizi collection. The important commitment, which will continue until the date of his premature death, will be completed by his student Stefano Mulinari and by the publication of the Disegni originali d’eccellenti Pittori esiste nella Real Galleria di Firenze engraved in copper with imitation of size and color in watercolor pen and pencil – in which Saint Antonino drives away two fake beggars.</p> <p>The engraving is the translation of a drawing by Giovanni Mannozzi known as <lang xml:lang="it-IT">Giovanni da San Giovanni</lang>, who in turn had taken up a fresco by <lang xml:lang="it-IT">Sigismondo Coccapani</lang>. The adoption of wash, which supports the pleasantly velvety sign of the etching, allows Scacciati to obtain pictorial chiaroscuro effects, intense highlights and a soft pastel effect, very similar to that of Mannozzi’s pen. Coccapani’s painting belongs to a large cycle of frescoes with the Stories of the life of Saint Antonino, was created in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1613</say-as> and decorates a lunette in the cloister in the Museum of San Marco in Florence. The collection of Original Drawings by Excellent Painters was initially published in installments of ten plates each, then in the 19th century it was collected in a volume. In the “<lang xml:lang="it-IT">Gazzetta Toscana</lang>” (13 April <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1771</say-as>) it is in fact reported that <break strength="x-strong"/>“Mr. Andrea Scacciati, a very skilled copper engraver and pensioner of S.A.R. Our Sovereign, in continuation of his commendable enterprise, has released the sixth series of Drawings by the most famous Painters, which are preserved in this Royal Gallery. Each series of this valuable collection contains ten Drawings and is worth one Florentine zecchino, and is dispensed at the shop of Iacopo Carlieri Bookseller and by the same Mr. Scacciati.”.</p>