Giovanni Battista Brostoloni

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Giovanni Battista Brostoloni (born c. 1726) was an Italian engraver, born in Venice. He was a pupil of Joseph Wagner. He engraved two Portraits of Pope Benedict XIV and a St. Theresa in Adoration. He also produced twenty vedute of Venice (1763) and twelve large plates of Ceremonies of the Election of Doge and his Marriage with Adriatic –all after Canaletto.{{cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title=Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical |volume=I: A-K |editor=Robert Edmund Graves |page=187| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&q=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST}}