Raffaello Schiaminossi

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Our Lady of Mercy, Sansepolcro Cathedral

Raffaello Schiaminossi (1572–1622) was an Italian engraver and painter of the late- Mannerist and early-Baroque period, active mainly in Tuscany.

He was born and died in Sansepolcro, and engraved works after Cornelis Cort, Federico Barocci,[1] and Ventura Salimbeni. The latter provided some of the designs for his voluminous collection of engravings titled Quindecim Mysteria Rosarii Beatæ Mariæ Virginis ("The Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary").[2]

A painting by an anonymous Italian artist that sold at auction in 2016 was found to have a support consisting of a partially cut Schiaminossi copperplate, the frontispiece to his set of etchings Twelve Caesars from 1606.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art, collections.
  2. ^ De Young Museum of Fine Art, San Francisco, collections of engravings.
  3. ^ Jaco Rutgers, "A Schiaminossi Plate", Print Quarterly Vol.XXXIV no.4, 2017, pp.429-32 (online version)