Adamo Scultori
Illustration — Adamo Scultori: Allegory of Slavery, etching, 1573, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Department of Prints and Drawings Adamo Scultori (c.1530 – 1585), also referred to as Adamo Ghisi, was an Italian engraver, sculptor and artist. Scultori was born in Mantua. He came from an artistic family: his father Giovanni Battista Scultori and sister Diana Scultori were both artists.
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Adamo Scultori
Adamo Scultori after Giulio Romano · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art. Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy. · CC0
- Born
- 1530 · Mantua.
- Died
- 1585 · Mantua.
- Occupation
- sculptor · engraver · artist
- Teachers
- Giovanni Battista Scultori
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Adamo Scultori: Allegory of Slavery, etching, 1573, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Department of Prints and Drawings Adamo Scultori (c.1530 – 1585), also referred to as Adamo Ghisi, was an Italian engraver, sculptor and artist. Scultori was born in Mantua. He came from an artistic family: his father Giovanni Battista Scultori and sister Diana Scultori were both artists.
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Biography
Because of his family's close association with the artist Giorgio Ghisi, his sister and he were sometimes referred to by the Ghisi surname. He died in 1585. Some of his works can be seen at the Cleveland Museum of Art. And the Slovak National Gallery.
Training under Giovanni Battista Scultori is recorded. The recorded working language is Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Mantua and Rome. Work by Adamo Scultori is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Art Institute of Chicago, Finnish National Gallery, Yale Center for British Art and Print Collection.
Head of Silenus, c. 1547–87, by Adamo Scultori
Adamo Scultori · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Elizabeth Carroll Shearer Fund
The Haul of Monstrous Fish, mid-1500s, by Adamo Scultori
Adamo Scultori · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
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1530
Adamo Scultori was born in 1530 at Mantua.
1585
Adamo Scultori died in 1585 at Mantua.
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- 1.Johann David Passavant, Adam von Bartsch, Jean Duchesne, Le peintre-graveur: Suite des maîtres italiens du XVe. et XVIe. siècle..., 1864, pp. 134–137 (online version)
- 2.Cleveland Museum of Art Adamo Scultori works.
- 3.Slovak National Gallery.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Paolo Bellini, L'Opera incisa di Adamo e Diana Scultori, Vicenza 1991
- M. Bury, The Print in Italy 1550-1625, British Museum, London 2001, p. 233
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