Cornelis Bloemaert

His workshop in Rome played an important role in spreading Italian art throughout Europe and attracted many young engravers from abroad.

[citation needed] Some of his better known engravings are of Annibale Carracci's The Holy Family, Pietro da Cortona's Adoration of the Shepherds, and Rubens' Meleager.

[1] During the period from 1664 to 1677, he worked with other engravers on reproductions of the Pietro da Cortona frescoes in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.

[3] These prints were published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi around 1677 in Rome as part of a series of 15 unnumbered prints entitled Heroicae Virtutes Imagines quas eques Petrus Beretinus pinxit Florentiae (Images of heroic deeds painted by the painted by the knight Pietro Berrettini of Florence).

Other printmakers who worked on this series include Coenraed Lauwers, Albert Clouwet, Jacques Blondeau, Lambert Visscher, Charles de La Haye, Jean Gerardin, François Spierre and Pierre Simon.