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Raphael Custos, or Custodis (1590–1664), was a German engraver and member of the Kilian family of engravers in
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Biography

He was born in Augsburg as the oldest biological son of
Dominicus Custos Dominicus Custos (1560–1612) was a Flemish artist, printer and copperplate engraver, who worked in the service of Emperor Rudolph II in Prague. Dominicus was born in Antwerp, the son of Pieter Balten, and settled in Augsburg as the second hu ...
and Maria Pfeiffelmann, who already had two sons by her first marriage,
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and
Wolfgang Kilian Wolfgang Kilian (10 May 1581 – 1662) was a German engraver and member of the Kilian family of engravers in Augsburg. Biography He was the son of Bartholomaus Kilian the elder and Maria Pfeiffelmann. After his father's death in 1583, his mothe ...
. His parents later had two more sons, David and Jacob Custos, and they all became pupils of their father Dominicus.Raphael Custos
in the
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After his father's death in 1612, Raphael continued the family workshop. Though his stepbrothers began their own workshops in Augsburg, they remained in close collaboration, as Raphael did not travel himself, but stayed to run family affairs while his brothers made business trips.


Works

* ''Emblemata sacra passionis salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi'', with Lucas Kilian, 1620 *
Emblemata amoris
',
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after works by
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, 1622 *
Patrologia: i.e. Descriptio S. Patrum, qui in Augustana
', 1624


References


Sources


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Custos, Raphael 1590 births 1664 deaths Kilian family 17th-century German engravers People from Augsburg