Samuele Jesi

Samuele Beniamino Jesi (4 September 1786, Correggio – 17 January 1853, Florence) was an Italian engraver of Jewish ancestry.

Then, largely freed of his family responsibilities, he became a pupil of the engraver Francesco Rosaspina, at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna.

His slow, meticulous work, combined with periods of inactivity due to a recurring illness, resulted in his output being relatively small.

He produced two major works in 1834: "The Madonna with St. John and St. Stephen", from a painting by Fra Bartolomeo in the Cathedral of Lucca, and a group portrait after Raphael, depicting Pope Leo X with Cardinals Luigi de' Rossi and Giulio de' Medici, who later became Pope Clement VII.

While in Paris, overseeing the process, he was elected a corresponding member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and received the ribbon of the Legion of Honor.