Domenico Cunego

Domenico Cunego (Verona, 1727 – Rome, 8 January 1803)[1][2] was an Italian printmaker.

At age 18, however, he switched to engraving (a field in which he was possibly self-taught).

The engravings he made depicting Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, published in Gavin Hamilton's Schola Italica Picturae (1773), were an important source for the artists of his time.

[3] He is notable not only for reproducing paintings by his famous fellow-countrymen like Guido Reni and Italian contemporaries such as Antonio Balestra, Francesco Solimena, and Felice Boscaratti, but also works by British artists in Italy catering to Grand Tourists.

The latter included Gavin Hamilton's cycle of 6 works on the Iliad and David Allan's Origin of Portraiture.