Girolamo Porro
Illustration — Porro's Map of Scotland in Tomaso Porcacchi Castilione's 'L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo', Venice 1572 • Illustration — Girolamo Porro, Antique map of Iceland, from the National and University Library of Iceland and the Central Bank of Iceland (1572) Girolamo Porro (c. 1520 - after 1604) was an Italian engraver on wood and on copper. He was born in Padua and spent most of his working career in Venice.
Girolamo Porro
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- Born
- 1520 · Padua.
- Died
- 1604 · Venice.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
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- engraver · painter · graphic artist · illustrator · etcher · xylographer · publisher
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Porro's Map of Scotland in Tomaso Porcacchi Castilione's 'L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo', Venice 1572 • Illustration — Girolamo Porro, Antique map of Iceland, from the National and University Library of Iceland and the Central Bank of Iceland (1572) Girolamo Porro (c. 1520 - after 1604) was an Italian engraver on wood and on copper. He was born in Padua and spent most of his working career in Venice.
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He engraved for a book entitled Imprese illustri di diversi, published by Camillo Camilli in 1535. He executed the plates for the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto, published at Venice in 1584; for the Funerali antichi di diversi Popoli et Natione, by Tommaso Porcacchi, published in 1574; and the portraits for the Sommario delle Vite do' Duchi di Milano by Scipione Barbuo, in 1574. The maps in Girolamo Ruscelli's translation of the Geographia of Ptolemy, 1574, and the maps in Porcacchi's Isole piu famose del Mondo, first published in 1572, are likewise by him.
The recorded working language is Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice and Rome. Work by Girolamo Porro is recorded in the collections of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Het Scheepvaartmuseum.
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1520
Girolamo Porro born at Padua.
1604
Girolamo Porro died at Venice.
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