Anna Maria Vaiani
Anna Maria Vaiani was an Italian engraver.Life and work
Anna Maria Vaiani was born in Florence in 1604. Her father Alessandro Vaiani was an artist. She lived and worked in Rome. In 1647 she married Jacques Courtois, another artist, but it was not a success.
Vaiani specialized in botanical engravings, although her first recorded work was completion of her father's paintings in the Pope’s Capella Segreta in Rome.
Vaiani exchanged letters with Galileo Galilei from 1630 to 1638. She acquired Cardinal Francesco Barberini as her patron through Galileo's influence. She was one of the artists who contributed copper-plate etchings in 1633 to illustrate Giovanni Battista Ferrari’s De florum cultura that was based on Barberini's botanic garden.
