# RIEPENHAUSEN, Franz [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1786–1831 - Profession: painter - School: German ## Biography German painter, part of a family of artists active in the 18th-19th centuries. Franz Riepenhausen and his brother Johannes \(1788-1860\) were early amateurs and champions of the Italian Primitives and long-standing German residents of Rome. Beginning in 1807 they entertained the notion of publishing the works of Giotto in engravings. In 1810 they published the first fascicle of a large-scale "Geschichte der Malerei in Italien." A series of engravings after the works of Fra Angelico and Raphael were to follow. ## Related artworks - [Title page]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()