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Giovanni Battista Scultori (Mantovano), artist
Italian, 1503 - 1575
The River God Po and a Putto, 1538
Engraving
11.1 x 13.6 cm (image)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection 1985.1.470

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Artist Biography: Sculptor and engraver, born in Mantua in 1503, died 1575. Active in circle of Giulio Romano. Signed his plates with monograms IBM, IBAMA, BA, or MA. Known as the founder of the school of Mantua, which included his children and Giorgio Ghisi. (Bartsch vol. XV as Giovanni Battista Ghisi.) ~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam von. Le Peintre-graveur. W¸rzburg: 1920.~Boorsch, Suzanne, and J. T. Spike. Italian Artists of the Sixteenth Century. The Illustrated Bartsch, Vol. 31. New York:1986. Abaris Books.~Pagani, Valeria. "Adamo Scultori and Diana Mantuana". Print Quarterly IX:1 (March 1992), pp. 72-87.~D'Arco, Carlo. Di cinque valenti incisore mantovani. Mantua: 1840.~Massari, Stefania. Incisori mantovani del '500. Roma: 1981.~

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