Pittore, disegnatore e incisore italiano attivo prima in Sicilia e poi a Roma. Figlio di Maestro Placido vasaio e fabbricante di mattoni e di Caterina Pugliesi. Fin da piccolo ha mostrato inclinazione per l'arte tanto che a 15 anni ha iniziato a disegnare e a...
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German engraver and goldsmith first active in Kleve and later in Bocholt, a town in the north of Germany close to the border with the Netherlands. His father, Israhel Van Meckenem 'the Elder', was probably a goldsmith arrived in Bocholt in 1457 and was identified...
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Venetian engraver, architect and painter Visentini began his artistic career as a pupil of Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, the predecessor painter of Tiepolo who was active first in Venice and then in England. The fame of the Visentini, however, is mainly due to his studies as an...
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Dutch painter, draftsman and engraver of battles and landscapes in the second half of the 17th century, together with his brother Jacob. ...
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Incisore, disegnatore e stampatore olandese, figlio dell’incisore e stampatore Claes Jansz (Amsterdam 1586-1652) e fratello di Jan e Lambert anch’essi incisori. Secondo Houbraken, biografo degli artisti del secolo d’oro olandese, Cornelis Visscher è da annoverare tra i più importanti e produttivi disegnatori e incisori di ritratti...
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Painter, engraver and Dutch designer, constantly active in Haarlem, his hometown. The first-born son of Jan Hendricx, a weaver from the city of Ostade near Eindhoven....
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Dutch painter and engraver, born in a family of artisans perhaps descendant of Lucas Van Leyden. There is no certain information about his apprenticeship....
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Dutch painter and engraver, second son of Jacob Claesz Bodding and Magdalena Heyns, a couple of teachers of a private school, founded by the writer and publisher Peeter Heyns, brother of Magdalena....
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Flemish painter, draftsman and engraver, expecially known as an author of portraits. Seventh son of a wealthy merchant, after a period of apprenticeship at the workshop of the painter Hendrick van Balen dean of the Guild of San Luca, at only seventeen he already had...
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Tuscan painter and engraver, trained in Pisa and Florence respectively at the school of Aurelio Lomi and Cristofano Allori. Later he went to Parma and Venice to study the works of Correggio and Titian....
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