Venetian painter and engraver, probably also a sculptor and architect. Son of Lucia Bonato and of the painter Giovanni Battista di Cristoforo, who was probably Paolo's first teacher. According to Vasari, he completed his apprenticeship with the painter Nicola Giolfino, the main exponent of a...
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Engraver and Italian painter son of the painter Girolamo and Maria Compagnoni. He was particularly active in Venice where he settled, perhaps on suggestion of his father, after some trips in Italy and a stay in Paris. He was a pupil of landscape painter Antonio...
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Italian engraver, son of Francis Falda and Catherine Mazzola. Soon the parents recognized his talent for drawing and entrusted him to Francesco Ferrari, painter of religious subjects. ...
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Italian painter and etcher born in Bologna. In the "Felsina pittrice: Vite de pittori Bolognesi ...
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Venetian painter and engraver, first-born son of Paolo Farinati and Benassuta di Angelo Volpin. He was the only one of three brothers to follow with determination the footsteps of his father Paolo, a painter and engraver, and to continue his workshop activity. ...
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Italian engraving and publisher born in Venice, or perhaps in Urbino, self-qualified in his will as a 'draftsman'. He was a natural son of John the Baptist Franco 'the Semoleo' and a woman called Francesca of Urbino. Although he was mainly an engraver, his name...
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Battista Franco dei Franchi nicknamed Semoleo (or Semolei) was a painter and Italian engraver. Son of Iacopo, he was born in Udine (or in Venice) probably around 1510....
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