Giuliano Traballesi (1727–1812)

• Was an Italian painter and engraver.
• Was born in Florence.
• Giuliano Traballesi, after winning a prize at the Academy of Parma in 1764, began working as a fresco painter in the cities of Livorno, Pisa and Florence.
• In 1775 he was called to Milan, to teach at the newly founded Brera Academy, and to collaborate on the decorations in the court palace.
• As an engraver he made some portraits of illustrious Florentines, together with Giuseppe Allegrini.
• In Bologna he copied the works of the masters, which he engraved between 1796 and 1812, publishing the collection of XXII paintings by the excellent masters, especially from Bologna, reproductions of famous works including: Agostino Carracci, Ludovico Carracci, Guido Reni, and Giacomo Cavedone.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Giuliano Traballesi, Self-Portrait, c. 1780.
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