Paolo Toschi was an Italian

Italy

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 draughtsman and engraver. He was born in Parma

Parma

Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....

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He trained in Paris

Paris

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 under Charles Clément Balvay

Charles Clément Balvay

Charles Clément Balvay , known as Bervic, was a French engraver mainly working in intaglio and exclusively in burin...

 (Bervic), and first made a reputation by a fine etching of Henry IV, after Gérard

François Gerard

François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard was a French painter born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador. His mother was Italian. As a baron of the Empire he is sometimes referred to as Baron Gérard.-Life:François Gérard was born in Rome, on 12 March 1770, to...

. In 1837 he was appointed Professor of Engraving and Director of the Academy of Parma, and shortly afterwards was commissioned to carry out the reproduction of Correggio's and Parmigianino

Parmigianino

Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola , also known as Francesco Mazzola or more commonly as Parmigianino or sometimes "Parmigiano", was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma...

's injured frescoes in S. Giovanni, and in the church of the Steccata

Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata

The Shrine of Santa Maria della Steccata is a Greek-cross design Renaissance church in central Parma, Italy.-History:By 1392, the site held a small oratory to shelter a miraculous image of St. John the Baptist and was neighboring a religious confraternity that had an equally miraculous image of the...

 in Parma, in water-color and engraving. The results were published in forty-eight plates. He died in Parma

Parma

Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....

. Other fine plates by Toschi were :

• 1. Lo Spasimo and Madonna Della Tenda after Raphael
     Raphael
     Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
     
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  2. Deposition after Daniele da Volterra
     Daniele da Volterra
     Daniele Ricciarelli , better known as Daniele da Volterra, was an Italian mannerist painter and sculptor.He is best remembered for his association, for better or worse, with the late Michelangelo. Several of Daniele's most important works were based on designs made for that purpose by Michelangelo...
     
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  3. The Madonna della Scodella; after Correggio.
  4. Venus and Adonis; after Francesco Albani
     Francesco Albani
     Francesco Albani or Albano was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early years in Bologna:Born 1578 in Bologna, his father was a silk merchant who intended to instruct his son in the same trade; but by age twelve, Albani became an apprentice under the competent mannerist painter Denis Calvaert, where he...
     
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  5. Portraits of the Grand Duke of Tuscany; the Duo Descazes; Machiavelli; and Alfiori.