Felice Polanzani (or Polanzi) (c. 1700 - after 1771) was an Italian engraver.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi by Felice Polanzani, engraving from first edition, ’b’; Book: Opere varie, Frontispiece, 1750

Polanzani was born at Noale, near Venice, but worked mainly in Rome, where he engraved a set of twenty-two plates, representing the Life of the Virgin based on designs some attributed to Nicolas Poussin, others to Jacobo Stella. He also engraved works of Van Dyck, Carlo Cignani, Marco Benefial, and G. Noyan.[1]

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  1. ^ Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z . London: George Bell and Sons. p. 305., page 30