Italian sculptor. He worked initially as a stone mason, but then trained as an engraver. After working in Venice making engravings of portraits and vedute based on paintings by sundry artists, he settled in Rome in 1772, where hi did some pages for the 'Schola Italica picturae' at the behest of Gavin Hamilton, and had some share in carrying out the colour engravings of Raphael's frescoes in the Stanze at the Vatican. Volpato's main contribution to the development of Neoclassical sculpture consisted in establishing and running a porcelain factory in Rome from 1786.Pope Pius VI had granted him the privilege of reproducing in porcelain the classical sculptures in the Vatican Museums. //