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Giuseppe Niccolò Vicentino

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Giuseppe Niccolò Vicentino, Saturn, woodcut using four blocks in black and different grey tones

Giuseppe Niccolò Vicentino, called Rospigliosi, was an Italian painter and wood-engraver of the Renaissance. He was born in Vicenza c. 1510 and worked in Bologna c. 1540. His method was chiaroscuro. He used three blocks and did much to develop the process. Among other cuts by him are: A Sibyl reading a Book; Hercules killing the Nemaean Lion after Raphael; Death of Ajax after Polidoro da Caravaggio; Venue embracing Cupid; and Glelia escaping from Porsenna's camp.[1][2]

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  1. ^ Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II: L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 665.
  2. ^ Takahatake, Naoko (2011). "Niccolò Vicentino's Miraculous Draught of Fishes". Print Quarterly. XXVIII: 256–60.