Allessandro Masnago
Illustration — Cameo with Noah's Ark, circa 1600. Walters Art Museum Allessandro Masnago (Active ca. 1560 – died 1620) was an Italian jewelry maker, sculptor and miniaturist.
Allessandro Masnago
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Illustration — Cameo with Noah's Ark, circa 1600. Walters Art Museum Allessandro Masnago (Active ca. 1560 – died 1620) was an Italian jewelry maker, sculptor and miniaturist.
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Catalogued output is recorded as follows. Institutional cataloguing adds that allessandro Masnago is recorded with the occupation sculptor. Recorded with the gender male. Institutional cataloguing adds that allessandro Masnago was born on 1 January 1575. Masnago died on 1 January 1612.
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Masnago has been described by art historians as a "great virtuoso." He was the son of Italian engraver Giovanni Antonio.
• Pendant with Cameo showing Orpheus and the Animals, Art Institute of Chicago • Sleeping Shepherdess in a Moonlit Landscape, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- 1.Gordon Campbell. "The" Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts. Oxford University Press. 413. 2006. 978-0-19-518948-3.
- 2.Art Institute of Chicago. Alessandro Masnago. Collections.
- 3.Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sleeping Shepherdess in a Moonlit Landscape. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.
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