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Adamo Scultori (Mantovano) , engraver
Italian, 1530 - 1585
Hercules at the Crossroads (The Young Hercules Wooed by Virtue and Sensuality), 16th century
Engraving
19.5 x 28.7 cm (image); 25.5 x 41.8 cm (sheet)
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection 1993.63.158

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after, Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi)

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Artist Biography: Engraver and publisher, born in Mantua, worked in Rome, where he died.~Previously called Adamo 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.~Bellini, Paolo. L'Opera incisa di Adamo e Diana Scultori. Vicenza: 1991.~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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