Incisore, disegnatore e pittore, nacque nel 1582 o 1583 molto probabilmente a Borgo Sansepolcro da Giovanni Maria, nobile di origine perugina. L'attività del Cantagallina si svolse prevalentemente a Firenze, dove con i fratelli Giovanni Francesco e Antonio fu allievo alla scuola di Giulio Parigi, del...
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Born in Venice on 17 October 1697 by Bernardo Cesare Canal and Artemisia Barbieri. The nickname "Canaletto" was attributed to him to distinguish him from the father with whom he collaborated and who was a painter of theatrical sets, or perhaps because of his short...
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German painter and printmaker, one of the major representatives of the northern Renaissance. Lucas the Elder was the father of Hans and Lucas Cranach the Younger, also painters....
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Italian painter and engraver, born in a wealthy Friulian family, who already owned a fief in the 16th century. His father, Giovanni Leonardo, was considered one of the most distinguished local artists of his time. Only a few works of the paternal activities in architecture and...
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Painter and engraver born in Bologna, son of Luca and Santina, brother of Giulia, also painter and wife of the etcher Domenico Maria Bonaveri. After a short period of work at a goldsmith laboratory, he studied drawing at the painter Giovan Battista Bertusi. Later on, Count...
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Painter, engraver and draftsman born in Oropezza, near Pesaro, son of Girolamo Cantarini, a merchant and grocer from whom the late Manierist painter G. Giacomo Pandolfi aquired powder colors. This last, together with the Veronese painter Claudio Ridolfi active in Pesaro, was one of the...
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Genoese engraver and painter, son of Giovanni Francesco and Giulia Varese. He worked, as a youngster, at the atelier of the painter Giovanni Battista Paggi and after his death he continued his training at the workshop of the painter Sinibaldo Scorza. This latter had approached engraving...
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French draftsman and engraver, born in the Ducat of Lorraine (at the time, an independent place on the eastern border of France), probably from a noble family linked to the Duke’s. After learning, together with Jaques de Bellange (future painter and engraver), the first rudiments...
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Italian painter and engraver son of Antonio, a tailor born in Cremona who was transferred at young age to Bologna. Annibale was the younger brother of Agostino and cousin of Ludovico. Within his family he expressed the most innovative and fruitful artistic talent. In Bologna...
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Adriaen Collaert was an engraver born in Antwerp and belonging to a family of Flemish engravers. There are few biographical information about this author, though many works are known. Son of Hans (or Jan) Collaert I, married to Justa, daughter of the well-known engraver and printer...
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