Alessandro Capriolo Explained

Alessandro Capriolo
Birth Place:Trento
Death Date:Unknown
Occupation:Engraver

Alessandro Capriolo was an engraver and printer who was born in the Holy Roman Empire and lived part of his life in the Papal States.

He was born in Trento in about 1557, but moved to Rome in 1580 to become a printer. He engraved an Assumption based on a fresco by Zuccari, a Mary Magdalen based on a design of the Flemish painter and draughtsman Maerten de Vos, and others.

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