Girolamo Porro
ARTISTGirolamo Porro was an Italian engraver on wood and on copper. He was born at Padua and spent most of his working career in Venice. 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.
moreBiography adapted from Wikipedia: Girolamo Porro (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Other Italian artists of the period:Antonio Tempesta 449Raphael 211Andrea Andreani 161Giulio Romano 145Jacopo Tintoretto 141Cherubino Alberti 131Giorgio Vasari 123Jacopo Strada 119
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Girolamo Porro was an Italian engraver on wood and on copper. He was born at Padua and spent most of his working career in Venice. 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.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of Girolamo Porro's work on the site falls under Prints (1).
Culture: Italian (1).
By orientation: 1 portrait.
Other Italian artists of the period
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- Antonio Tempesta — 449 artworks
- Raphael — 211 artworks
- Andrea Andreani — 161 artworks
- Giulio Romano — 145 artworks
- Jacopo Tintoretto — 141 artworks
- Cherubino Alberti — 131 artworks
- Giorgio Vasari — 123 artworks
- Jacopo Strada — 119 artworks
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