Cristoforo Coriolano () (born 1540) was a German engraver of the

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Biography

He was born in

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. He moved to

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and changed his name from Lederer for that of Coriolano. He engraved on wood. In the ''Life of

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'', the biographer

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assured that his ''Maestro Cristofano'', after achieving some success in

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, engraved on wood the portraits of the painters, sculptors, and architects, after Vasari's designs, for his ''Lives of the Painters'', first published in 1568. Others consider them to be the work of Christopher Krieger. He also engraved the greater part of the figures in the ''Ornithology'' of

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. He died in

in the beginning of the 17th century. His sons Giovanni Battista Coriolano and Bartolommeo Coriolano became eminent engravers in the

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period.

References

* * Manfred H. Grieb: ', Munich 2007 * Thomas, Joseph. ''Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology'' Vol I. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1915. Italian engravers German Renaissance painters Painters from Bologna 1540 births 17th-century deaths Artists from Nuremberg Catholic engravers {{Italy-engraver-stub