Download or read book Stefano Della Bella: Drawings Colour Plates written by Maria Peitcheva and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefano della Bella (1610 - 1664) was an Italian draughtsman and printmaker known for etchings of a great variety of subjects, including military and court scenes, landscapes, and lively genre scenes. He left 1052 prints, and several thousand drawings, but only one known painting. He is known to have illustrated some discoveries for Galileo, and depicted Hansken the famous elephant, when dead. In his final years he produced a number of prints experimenting with tonal effects, though these were little known at the time; he had long made much use of wash in his drawings, and was now attempting with considerable success to achieve similar effects in etching, though only a few good impressions could be taken from the plate.