Baccio Baldini

Inferno 1, engraving after Botticelli, c. 1481, Biblioteca Riccardiana

Baccio Baldini (1436 c. 1487) was an Italian engraver of the Renaissance, active in his native Florence.

Biography

Little is known of Baldini's life. The biographer Vasari noted that Baldini was a goldsmith who based all of his works on Sandro Botticelli and that Baldini was a pupil of Maso Finiguerra.

Engravings by Baldini were published in 1477 in a work by Antonio Bettini and also nineteen plates for a 1481 edition of Dante's Inferno. The following plates have been attributed to Baldini : Plates for the Monte Santo di Dio (1477). printed by Nicolaus Laurentii; Twenty-four of the Prophets; Twelve of the Sibyls; and a Theseus and Ariadne.

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