Filippo Morgen. Filippo Morgen was an Italian printmaker and painter.
He was born into the family of a shopkeeper and was a representative of a large family of artists. His brother Giovanni was a painter and engraver, and his son, Rafael Morgen, was an engraver who specialized in reproductions of works by Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci.
From 1760 he lived in Naples, where he married the daughter of the artist Francesco Liano. He was the creator of engraving portraits, geographical maps and a series on the theme of travel to the moon.
Morgen also did a number of engravings with antiquities from Herculaneum and views of the environs of Naples. In the second half of the 18th century he published a book of engravings, A collection of the most remarkable objects seen by the Knight Wilde Skull and Signor de la Hire during their famous journey from Earth to the Moon.
He was born into the family of a shopkeeper and was a representative of a large family of artists. His brother Giovanni was a painter and engraver, and his son, Rafael Morgen, was an engraver who specialized in reproductions of works by Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci.
From 1760 he lived in Naples, where he married the daughter of the artist Francesco Liano. He was the creator of engraving portraits, geographical maps and a series on the theme of travel to the moon.
Morgen also did a number of engravings with antiquities from Herculaneum and views of the environs of Naples. In the second half of the 18th century he published a book of engravings, A collection of the most remarkable objects seen by the Knight Wilde Skull and Signor de la Hire during their famous journey from Earth to the Moon.
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