Stefano Della Bella (18 May 1610 - 12 July 1664). Born in Florence important Italian printmaker known for works of many subjects, including military ones. Possessed a skilled hand, lived at a time when graphic art had a large international audience-contemporary of Giovanni-Benedetto Castiglione and Rembrandt van Rijn. Bella was strongly influenced by the French artist Jacques Callot.

Son of the sculptor Francesco della Bella. However, Stefano earlier worked at goldsmith studio but he wanted to be an engraver and decided to enter the atelier of Remigio Cantagallina who was the former teacher of J. Callot.

A protégé of the Medici, he worked for and thanks to them going to Rome in 1638. In 1642 traveled to Paris – worked also for cardinal Richelieu. Returned to Florence in 1650. From the Grand Duke of Tuscany he obtained a pension and named him the design teacher for his son Cosimo III. Stefano is buried in the church at San Ambrogio in Florence.

Diverse figure et paesi. Lit.: A.de Vesme, P.Massar, Stefano Della Bella poz.172.; J.Talbierska, Stefano Della Bella s.138