Personalities Aquila, Pietro

Artist and engraver of the Baroque period. He studied in Palermo at school of painter and engraver Pietro del Po. He worked in Palermo at first and then in Naples and Rome, where he drew paintings for churches and monasteries. He became the most famous as an engraver-reproductionist from the originals of Raphael, Annibale Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, Carlo Maratti, Giovanni Lanfranco, Lazzaro Baldi and others. His most significant works are engravings from the ceiling paintings of Annibale Carracci in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome that were published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi under the title "Galeriae Farnesianae icones".