Niccolò Billy

Originally from France, he was active around 1734 along with his brother Antonio Billy.

Niccoló engraved some plates for the 12 volumes of the Museum Florentinum, including self-portraits of Federico Zuccari; Hans Holbein; Pier Leone Ghezzi; and Giovanni Morandi.

He also engraved Cardinal Pompeo Aldrovandi after G. Berti; Infant Jesus sleeping; Cardinal Spinelli; St. Philip Neri kneeling before the Virgin after Sebastiano Conca; The Holy Family: after Annibale Carracci; St Michael the Archangel after Pietro da Cortona (1689); and The Flight into Egypt; after Guido Reni.

He engraved Celebriores Vallumbrosanae Congregationis Sancti, Beati ac Venerabilis (1695) for Giovanni Aurelio Casari, and from 1734 to 1747, the cardinals based on the chalcography of Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi.

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Engraving from The ancient paintings of Herculaneum and engraved outlines with some explanation.. , Vol.3