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Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, engraver
Italian, 1505 - 1565
Hercules defeating the River God Achelous in the Form of a Bull, after Rosso Fiorentino, 16th century
Engraving
20.9 x 18 cm (image); 21.7 x 18.2 cm (sheet)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.36942

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after, Rosso Fiorentino

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Artist Biography: Engraver in copper and of medals and pietre dure. Born in Parma or Verona circa 1505, died in 1565 in Cracow or Parma. Worked for the Raphael workshop and Rosso Fiorentino.~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam von. Le Peintre-graveur. Vol 14. W¸rzburg: 1920.~Boorsch, Suzanne and J. Spike. Italian Masters of the Sixteenth Century. The Illustrated Bartsch. Vol. 28. New York: 1985, Abaris Books. ~Pezzini, G.B., S. Massari, S.P.Valenti RodinÚ. Raphael Invenit. Rome: 1985, Edzioni Quasar.~Carroll, J. Rosso Fiorentino. Washington DC: 1989~

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