Piccini, Giacomo

Piccini, Giacomo an Italian engraver, was born at Venice in 1617. It is not known by whom he was instructed. He engraved a set of thirty portraits of the principal painters of the Venetian schlool, for the account of their lives by Ridolfi, published inl 1648. He also engraved a few plates after the Italian masters, among which are The Holy Trimity, after P. Liberi; Judith with the Head of Holofernes at her Feet, and The Holy Family, after Titian. His plates are executed in a stiff, disagreeable style. He was living in 1669.