His father, Giuseppe de Rossi (1570–1639), was the founder of the most important and active printing press of the 17th century in Rome. The business begun in 1633, and after Giuseppe it passed to Giovanni Giacomo and to his brother Giandomenico (1619–1653). Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi was the most involved of all the various family members who ran the press, and he worked between 1638 and 1691, and was to take the company to the height of its success. The artists that he printed the etchings for included
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–1665),
Pietro Testa (1612–1650),
Giovan Francesco Grimaldi (1606–1680) and
Giovanni Battista Falda (1643–1678). Upon his death, in 1691, the printing house was carried on by his son,
Domenico de Rossi, and then by his nephew, Lorenzo Filippo (1682–?). In 1738
Clement XII bought the entire collection of prints, which constituted the initial nucleus of the Calcografia Camerale, today known as the
Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. America Settentrionale, 1677 - DPLA - 4d39b852ffa0e4d188a302665ffbdc00.jpg|Map of North America, engraved by Giorgio Widman and printed by Gio. Giacomo de Rossi in Rome in 1677 (Venice) Prospect of the City and Fortress of Coron (Koroni) by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi - Museo Correr.jpg|Prospect of the City and Fortress of Coron (Koroni) -
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