Adamo Scultori (c.1530 – 1585), also referred to as Adamo Ghisi, was an Italian engraver, sculptor and artist. Scultori was born in

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. He came from an artistic family: his father Giovanni Battista Scultori and sister Diana Scultori were both artists. Because of his family's close association with the artist

Giorgio Ghisi Giorgio Ghisi (1520 — 15 December 1582) was an Italian engraver from Mantua who also worked in Antwerp and in France. He made both prints and damascened metalwork, although only two surviving examples of the latter are known. He worked in ...

, his sister and he were sometimes referred to by the Ghisi surname. He died in 1585.Johann David Passavant, Adam von Bartsch, Jean Duchesne, ''Le peintre-graveur: Suite des maîtres italiens du XVe. et XVIe. siècle...'', 1864, pp. 134–137
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Some of his works can be seen at the

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. and the

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