Giovanni Battista Fontana

circa 1524 Verona – 1587 Innsbruck

During the early years he spent in Verona the painter, draughtsman and engraver, Giovanni Battista Fontana, was greatly influenced by Titian, Veronese and Giulio Romano. He went to Vienna in 1562 and was subsequently active in Innsbruck, where he was appointed court painter to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in 1575. Bartsch and Passavant attribute a little over seventy prints to Fontana, most of which are etchings reworked with a burin.