Girolamo Rossi

Girolamo Rossi (born 1680) was an Italian engraver of the late-Baroque. He was also called Girolamo de Rubeis the Younger. He was born and lived most of his life in Rome, where he engraved a variety of plates after the Italian painters. He is said to have been a pupil of Camillo Rama, and painted in the style of Paolo Veronese. He also executed several portraits of the cardinals of his time, for a series which was afterwards continued by Pazzi and others.

Portrait of Cardinal Nicola Grimaldi by Girolamo Rossi

He engraved The Virgin and Infant Jesus after Correggio. and The Martyrdom of St. Agapita after Giovanni Odazzi. He also engraved a portrait of Pope Pius V, and of S. Carlo Borromeo kneeling.

References
  • Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 415.CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Federico Nicoli Cristiani (1807). Della Vita delle pitture di Lattanzio Gambara; Memorie Storiche aggiuntevi brevi notizie intorno a' più celebri ed eccelenti pittori Bresciani. Spinelli e Valgiti, Brescia. pp. 178.



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