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Antonio da Trento
1508 - 1550
CountryItaly
Biography(Information from _Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art_, p. 16)"Antonio da Trento was one of the most accomplished Italian woodcutters of the second quarter of sixteenth century. His body of chiaroscuro woodcuts was done after the designs of the artist Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino. Antonio worked under Parmigianino in Bologna between 1527, the year Parmigianino left Rome, and 1531. Nothing is known about Antonio after 1531, nor do any prints by him exist after this date. Giorgio Vasari, in his _Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects_, informed his readers that Antonio da Trento suddenly left the city one day after stealing his master's drawing and copper plates, adding that "he must have gone off to the Devil, for all the news that was ever heard of him."
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