Georg Christoph Martini or Giorgio Cristoforo Martini, also called il Sassone (the Saxon) (died 21 December 1745) was a German-Italian painter, engraver, travel writer, archeologist, and antiquarian.
He served as a secretary for the Ambassador from Lucca to Vienna, Carol Mansi during 1736-1742.
He described and illustrated many Roman and Etruscan antiquities found in the region of Lucca.
While he died in Lucca, he was buried in the first Dutch-German cemetery in Livorno, known as the "Dutch Garden", which he had visited in 1725 and describes in his travel journal.
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