Angelo Ardinghi (1850–1897) was an Italian wood engraver. He was born in Forte de' Marmi near

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in the province of

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. He first trained in

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with Giulio Tadini, then in 1863, moved to the Istituto di Belle Arti, working under the engraver P. Giusti. At Siena, he won a number of competitions there. He obtained a stipend from the province of Lucca, and moved to

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to work under professor Francesco Ratti, and from there to

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, where he opened a studio for

wood engraving Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively l ...

. He became a professor of xylography ( wood-cut engraving) at the Scuola professionale of Florence. ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 19 . He won awards in 1877 at the Provincial Exposition of Lucca. Among his works are: *Portrait of Michelangelo for the '' l'Illustrazione Italiana'' *Monument of the Commune and province of Lucca *Portraits in the ''Dizionario Biografico degli scrittori viventi'' by Angelo De Gubernatis (1880) *Illustrations to a ''Guida dell' Italia Centrale'' (1882).

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1850 births 1897 deaths Italian engravers 19th-century Italian male artists People from Forte dei Marmi {{Italy-engraver-stub