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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Incisore, cartografo e stampatore olandese, allievo del disegnatore di carte geografiche Willem Jansz Blaeu di dieci anni più vecchio di lui. Ancora giovane si è trasferito ad Amsterdam al seguito del suo maestro, che in quella città aveva aperto la sua bottega....
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Pittore, disegnatore e incisore italiano esponente fondamentale della corrente manierista emiliana. Discendente di una famiglia originaria di Pontremoli, ottavo di nove fratelli, era figlio del pittore Filippo Mazzola e di Donatella Abbate. ...
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Bernardo Daddi (perhaps born in 1512 approx – died in Rome in 1570), is the name given to Master B recognized for a B marked on a dice, that is present in several prints. The Mister of the Die was a painter and engraver...
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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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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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Painter and xylograph of the German Renaissance active between 1502 and 1526, whose woodcuts are his only remaining work. Although most of his engravings were performed as book illustrations, he was also a prolific creator of chiaroscuro woodcuts with two or more colors produced as...
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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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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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The Sadeler family was the largest and most famous dynasty of Flemish engravers and printers, active in several European countries for three generations, producing a vast amount of generally high quality works....
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