Giovanni Ottaviani (1735 - 1808)

Giovanni Ottaviani

Giovanni Ottaviani was an Italian painter and engraver who worked in Rome in the 18th century.

Ottaviani's most famous work is a series of panel plates from Raphael's loggia at the Vatican, published in the mid-1770s. The plates depict the "grotesque style" decorations made by Raphael and his assistants in the loggia of the Vatican Palace for Pope Leo X (1475-1521) in 1515-1519. More than 200 years later, the engravers Giovanni Ottaviani and Giovanni Volpato (1740-1803) were commissioned by Pope Clement XIII (1693-1769) to print a series of copperplate engravings based on Raphael's Loggia.