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Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldolla), artist
Italian, 1500 - 1563
Prophet Reading A Scroll, 16th century
Etching with drypoint
12.6 x 7.1 cm (image)
Loan from Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection L85.

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Artist Biography: Born in Zava (Zadar) on Dalmatian coast, then under Venetian rule. In 1556 won a painting commission in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. Worked mostly in intaglio and at the end of his life made designs for block prints. Died in Venice in 1563. See: Sopher, Marcus. Sixteenth-Century Italian Prints. Claremont: 1978.~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. vol. 16. W¸rzburg: 1920.~Zerner, H. Italian Artists of the Sixteenth Century. New York: 1979. Abaris Books.~Reed, Sue Welsh, and R. Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque. Boston: 1989, Museum of Fine Arts.~

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