Valerio Spada

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

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