Giulio Bonasone was a painter and a burin engraver, born in Bologna between 1500 and 1510. He was the son of Antonio, originally from Carpi who had settled in Bologna at the end of the XV century, by acquiring citizenship rights in 1492. ...
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Son of Giovanni Ludovico and Orsolina Pizziroldi was born in Bologna around 1574. Initially he began his career as a shoemaker, but soon, seconded in his artistic tendencies by his stepfather, he became a pupil of the Bolognese painter Bartolomeo Passarotti. Subsequently he was first...
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Information on the life and works of Baccio Baldini are scarce and often uncertain. The most concrete reference is perhaps the one that Vasari gave us: about the 'Life of Marcantonio Bolognese', he describes Baccio as a student of Maso Finiguerra and his successor in...
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A painter and engraver of southern Netherlands, younger brother of Bolswert Boetius, who was an engraver in turn. The strange name of this artist, perhaps the skillest among the engravers who worked for Rubens, is reported as Schetleon in the archives of the guild of...
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Draftsman, painter and French engraver, one of the major exponents of the early Baroque, active at the Dukedom of Lorraine between 1602 and 1616 where he made decorations and paintings, most of which are lost today....
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Italian engraver, son of Maddalena Pieri and Gaetano Florentine goldsmith who probably had a workshop in Ponte Vecchio. At the age of nine years Francesco had already learnt to draw and the technical bases of the intaglio. He improved his studies at the Academy of...
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An Italian engraver active in Bologna between the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century. He was probably a pupil of his uncle Domenico Maria Canuti, painter and engraver in Bologna. He has translated works from Correggio, Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Canuti,...
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French engraver born in Vineuil near Blois in the department of Loir-et-Cher. A farmer's son, he was a student of the painter Sebastien Burdon and of Cornelis Bloemaert, a famous Dutch painter and etcher, both also active in Italy....
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Engraver and painter known for the vast amount of etchings on monuments and antiquities of Rome. After a childhood spent in Villa Bartola, family house near Perugia, he moved to Rome where he studied with Nicolas Poussin. His work as a painter did not leave traces...
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Italian engraver, draftsman and painter, son of Giovanni Andrea, a modest landscape painter, who was also his first teacher. He has probably completed his artistic training at the studio of painter Domenico Fiasella. Around 1650 Bartolomeo entered the atelier of Valerio Castello, from which he...
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