Girolamo Rossi

Who is Girolamo Rossi?

Girolamo Rossi was an Italian engraver of the late-Baroque. He was also called Girolamo de Rubeis the Younger. He was born and lived most of his life in Rome, where he engraved a variety of plates after the Italian painters. He is said to have been a pupil of Camillo Rama, and painted in the style of Paolo Veronese. He also executed several portraits of the cardinals of his time, for a series which was afterwards continued by Pazzi and others.

He engraved The Virgin and Infant Jesus after Correggio. and The Martyrdom of St. Agapita after Giovanni Odazzi. He also engraved a portrait of Pope Pius V, and of S. Carlo Borromeo kneeling.