ZANETTI, Anton Maria II
(b. 1706, Venezia, d. 1778, Venezia)

Biography

Anton Maria Zanetti II (Anton Maria the Younger) was an Italian draftsman, librarian, and writer. The son of Anton Maria Zanetti I's cousin, Anton[io] Maria II was a protegé of the elder Zanetti who developed into a distinguished critic; he collaborated with his elder cousin, providing most of the drawings for a sumptuously illustrated account of the classical sculpture conserved in Venetian public collections (I, Venice, 1740, II, Venice, 1743).