Diego de Astor
ARTISTDiego de Astor was a 17th-century Spanish engraver from Toledo. He studied under Domenico Theotocopuli, and in 1606 engraved, under his superintendence, a 'St. Francis,' after Nic. de Vargas. Astor was engraver to the Mint of Segovia, and was also employed to engrave the royal seals. Of his plates we may notice the titlepage to Colmenares' Historia de Segovia, and a series of plates of the first documented manual alphabet for the purpose of deaf education in Bonet's book Reducción de las letras y arte para enseñar a hablar a los mudos.
moreBiography adapted from Wikipedia: Diego de Astor (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Diego de Astor, wall art & digital downloads
1 works by Diego de Astor (Spanish, 1587–1650) are catalogued on Archive Lane, free to preview and available to download or order as a print.
Diego de Astor was a 17th-century Spanish engraver from Toledo. He studied under Domenico Theotocopuli, and in 1606 engraved, under his superintendence, a 'St. Francis,' after Nic. de Vargas. Astor was engraver to the Mint of Segovia, and was also employed to engrave the royal seals. Of his plates we may notice the titlepage to Colmenares' Historia de Segovia, and a series of plates of the first documented manual alphabet for the purpose of deaf education in Bonet's book Reducción de las letras y arte para enseñar a hablar a los mudos.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of Diego de Astor's work on the site falls under Prints (1).
Culture: Spanish (1).
By orientation: 1 portrait.
Other Spanish artists of the period
Artists from the same country and generation, also in the archive:
- Jusepe de Ribera — 129 artworks
- Bartolomé Estebán Murillo — 127 artworks
- Diego Velázquez — 59 artworks
- Diego Velázquez — 59 artworks
- Francisco de Zurbarán — 58 artworks
- Juan Pantoja de la Cruz — 24 artworks
- Alonso Cano — 23 artworks
- Giuseppe Ribera — 7 artworks
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