Valerio Spada (1613–1688) was an Italian printmaker.
Life and work
Spada was born in Colle di Val d'Elsa, Tuscany. He Studied drawing with Lorenzo Lippi.
He was a draughtsman, etcher and calligrapher, and also worked as a public scrivener and teacher of calligraphy.
Collections Spada's work is held in the following permanent collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois British Museum, London Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Victoria and Albert Museum, London (as designer, and as engraver) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
References
Further reading Phyllis Dearbon Massar, Valerio Spada, Seventeenth-Century Florentine Calligrapher and Draughtsman, Master Drawings, vol.19 no.3, 1981, pp.251–75+319–44 Phyllis Dearborn Massar, The Prints of Valerio Spada - I, Print Quarterly, vol.3 no.3, 1986, pp.217–38 Phyllis Dearborn Massar, The Prints of Valerio Spada - II, Print Quarterly, vol.4 no.1, 1987, pp.19–39