Carattoni, Girolamo

Pietro Paolo Montagnani (also Montagnani-Mirabili; 1740 in Rome – date of death unknown) was a late 18th-century and early 19th-century Italian engraver (burin) and publisher of books and prints who lived presumably in Florence around 1800–1820. Around 1790, Pietro Paolo Montagnani published a series of engravings picturing the Sibyls (Latin: Sibylla, s.; -ae, pl.) by talented Italian engravers such as Girolamo Carattoni (ca.1760 – ca. 1809), Domenico Cunego, Giovanni Folo and Giovanni Petrini (active 1800–1812) after paintings by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (il Guercino), Domenico Zampieri (il Domenichino) and Sebastiano Conca. In 1805, Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili published a book on "ancient monuments, news on the antiquities and fine arts of Rome", Vol. VIII (or, more likely, VII, according to some scholars, attributing it to a typographical error in transcribing the Roman numeral in later imprints or facsimile editions). This book contained multiple engravings of ancient statues and bas-reliefs by Gio(vanni) Pietrini inc. (incisore, i.e. engraver) after drawings by (Aloysius) L(uigi) Agricola dis. (disegnatore, i.e. draughtsman) and F(ilip.) Salari dis.; by P(ietro) Ghigi...