- Baccio Baldini
Baccio Baldini (1436 - c. 1487) was an Italian engraver of the
Renaissance , active in his nativeFlorence .Biography
Little is known of Baldini's life. The biographer
Vasari noted that Baldini was a goldsmith who based all of his works onBotticelli and that Baldini was a pupil ofMaso Finiguerra .Engravings by Baldini were published in 1477 in a work by
Antonio Bettini and also nineteen plates for a 1481 edition of Dante's Inferno. The following plates have been attributed to Baldini : Plates for the "Monte Santo di Dio" (1477). byNiccolo Lorenzo della Magna in 1431; Twenty-four of the Prophets; Twelve of the Sibyls; and a "Theseus and Ariadne".References
*Ottley, William Young. "Engravers and their Works." London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1831.
*Rogers, Walter Thomas. "A Manual of Bibliography." London: H. Grevel & Co., 1891.
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