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Giambattista Brustolon (Venice, 1712 – Venice, 16 October 1796) was an Italian engraver. On behalf of the print merchant and publisher Lodovico Furlanetto, Canaletto made twelve drawings of traditional Venetian festivals - in pen, brown ink and gray watercolor - known as Dogal Solemnities and which were engraved in 1766, in etching and burin, by Giambattista Brustolon who he proved to be a refined interpreter of eighteenth-century Venetian landscape painting. Read the full biography

Giambattista Brustolon (Venice, 1712 – Venice, 16 October 1796) was an Italian engraver. On behalf of the print merchant and publisher Lodovico Furlanetto, Canaletto made twelve drawings of traditional Venetian festivals - in pen, brown ink and gray watercolor - known as Dogal Solemnities and which were engraved in 1766, in etching and burin, by Giambattista Brustolon who he proved to be a refined interpreter of eighteenth-century Venetian landscape painting. These engravings were then transformed into paintings by Francesco Guardi. The Solemnities celebrated the election of Doge Alvise IV Mocenigo (1763 - 1778), which took place in 1763. Four of these paintings by Guardi are in the Louvre. Among these twelve festive events, engraved by Brustolon: Election of the Doge in the Grand Council, Coronation of the Doge, Marriage of the Sea, Feast of Health, Shrove Thursday, The Doge of Venice receives foreign ambassadors, The Doge of Venice leaving the Basilica of S Marco throws money to the people, Procession of Corpus Christi, Doge on the Bucintoro, Departure of the Bucintoro for San Nicolò di Lido on the day of the Ascension. In the collections of the Correr Museum there are all twelve prints by Brustolon, but this museum only has ten of the twelve plates engraved by Brustolon. These plates were reprinted because the privilege had expired: around 1791 the edition with the titles in French was released.