in Santa Maria Maggiore. Having accompanied Cardinal Flavio Chigi to France, he was encouraged by the minister Colbert to execute designs from medals, antique gems and similar sources a series of portraits of the most illustrious characters of antiquity, accompanied with memoirs. In France he had engraved a portrait of Cardinal Mazzarino. In Rome he continued to work for the Chigi in 1665, painting in his palace at Santi Apostoli. In 1666, he painted a small gouache scenes with the Miracles of Francis de Sales for the church of Villa Versaglia at Formello. But in these years he began to devote himself almost exclusively to his interests scholars and antiquarians, shortly after, Canini died from a febrile illness. The work, however, was completed by his brother Marcantonio with the assistance of Jean Picard and Valet. It was published it in 1669, under the title of Iconografia di Giovanni Agnolo Canini''. It contains 50 engravings. A reprint in Italian and French appeared at Amsterdam in 1731. References 1617 births 1666 deaths Painters from Rome 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian archaeologists Italian Baroque painters Italian engravers Fresco painters