Andrea Andreani, an Italian painter and engraver, surnamed II Mantuano, born in Mantua about 1540, died in Rome in 1623. He devoted himself principally to wood engraving, and exerted a marked influence upon the development of that branch of art. His cuts are printed in chiaroscuro, and his works have often been confounded with those of Altdorfer, from his using a similar monogram. Two of his best prints are after Titian's "Deluge" and "Pharaoh's Host destroyed in the Red sea."