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Pitteri, Marco Alvise
(b Venice, 24 April 1702; d Venice, 4 Aug 1786). Italian engraver. He was an excellent reproductive engraver, who learnt his skill in engraving from Giuseppe Baroni (d 1730) after studying drawing in the studio of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. His first dated print is Religion Crushing Heresy (1724), after Piazzetta, while an engraved portrait of the Chancellor Giovanni Maria Vincenti, after Pietro Uberti (b c. 1671), dates from 1725. Early in his career he was attracted to the technique made famous by Claude Mellan: the use of repeated parallel lines that are either more or less emphasized according to whether they represent shaded or lighted areas, replacing the function of cross-hatching. In Venice this technique was also employed by Carlo Orsolini (1710–80) and Gianantonio Faldoni.
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