Baccio Baldini
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Baccio Baldini (1436-1490?, fl. 1460-1490) was an Italian engraver.
[edit] Biography
Little is known of Baldini's life, apart his Florentine origin. The biographer Vasari noted that Baldini was a goldsmith who based all of his works on Botticelli.
Engravings by Baldini were published in 1477 in a work by Antonio Bettini and also in a 1481 edition of Dante's Inferno.
[edit] References
- Ottley, William Young. Engravers and their Works. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1831.
- Rogers, Walter Thomas. A Manual of Bibliography. London: H. Grevel & Co., 1891.
