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Alessandro Capriolo

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Alessandro Capriolo
Born1557 (1557)
DiedUnknown
OccupationEngraver

Alessandro Capriolo was an Italian engraver and printer.

He was born in Trento in 1557, but moved to Rome in 1580 to become a printer. He engraved an Assumption based on a fresco by Zuccheri, a Mary Magdalen based on a design of the Flemish painter and draughtsman Maerten de Vos, and others.

Sources

  • Boni, Filippo de' (1852). Biografia degli artisti ovvero dizionario della vita e delle opere dei pittori, degli scultori, degli intagliatori, dei tipografi e dei musici di ogni nazione che fiorirono da'tempi più remoti sino á nostri giorni. Seconda Edizione.. Venice; Googlebooks: Presso Andrea Santini e Figlio. p. 184.