Anna Maria Vaiani

Anna Maria Vaiani (or Anna Maria Vaiana) (died ca. 1655)[1] was an Italian engraver.

Anna Maria Vaiani
Portrait of Anna Maria Vaiani by Claude Mellan
Born1604
Florence, Kingdom of Italy
Diedca. 1655[1]
Known forEngraving
Spouse(s)Jacques Courtois

Life and work

Anna Maria Vaiani was born in Florence in 1604. Her father Alessandro Vaiani was an artist.[2] She lived and worked in Rome. In 1647 she married Jacques Courtois, another artist, but it was not a success.

Vaiani specialized in botanical engravings, although her first recorded work was completion of her father's paintings in the Pope’s Capella Segreta in Rome.[2]

Vaiani exchanged letters with Galileo Galilei from 1630 to 1638.[3] She acquired Cardinal Francesco Barberini as her patron through Galileo's influence. She was one of the artists who contributed copper-plate etchings in 1633 to illustrate Giovanni Battista Ferrari’s De florum cultura that was based on Barberini's botanic garden.[2]

References
  1. "ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research)". Getty. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  2. Batsaki, Yota; Tchikine, Anatole; Celnik, Leib; Chaivaranon, Ariana. "Margaret Mee: Portraits of Plants". Dumbarton Oaks. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  3. Pietro Greco (19 April 2018). Galileo Galilei, The Tuscan Artist. Springer. p. 350. ISBN 978-3-319-72032-6.
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