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Longhi, Giuseppe
(b Monza, 13 Oct 1766; d Milan, 12 Jan 1831). Italian printmaker and writer. He trained with Vincenzo Vangelisti (1728–98), and went to Rome to copy Old Masters before dedicating himself completely to engraving, a field in which he did much to promote the Neo-classical movement in Milan. In 1794 he engraved Guido Reni’s Genius of Music and in 1795 Daniele Crespi’s St Jerome. He established his reputation in 1797 with his engraving of Napoleon Bonaparte I (from the original by Antoine-Jean Gros). In 1798 he succeeded Vangelisti as professor of engraving at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. In 1801 he was part of the Consulta Cisalpina in Lyon; he then visited Paris, where he met many artists, including Jacques-Louis David and Nicolas-Henri Tardieu.
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