Agostino Musi
Italian, c. 1490 - 1540
Italian engraver and draughtsman. His monogram (‘A.V.’) and in five instances his full name appear on 141 prints. Of these 85 are dated from 1514 to 1536. He began his career in Venice. His earliest dated prints (1514) are copies after Giulio Campagnola (The Astrologer; b. 411) and Dürer (Last Supper; b. 25). A print dated 1515 after Baccio Bandinelli (Cleopatra; b. 193) and another dated 1516 after Andrea del Sarto (the Dead Christ Supported by Three Angels; b. 40) indicate his presence in Florence in these years.
In 1516 Agostino went to Rome, where over the next ten years he produced numerous prints after Raphael (e.g. Blinding of Elymas, 1516; b. 43), Michelangelo, Giulio Romano and Rosso Fiorentino. He left Rome at the time of the Sack in 1527 and went to Venice, where he worked on illustrations (later rejected; b. 525–33) for a book on architecture by Sebastiano Serlio (unpublished); he also visited Mantua, where he engraved prints after Giulio Romano (e.g. Hercules and the Nemean Lion, 1528; b. 287), and Florence. Between 1531 and 1536 he worked in Rome, where he produced numerous prints, including a set of 12 Antique Vases (1531; b. 541–52) and several contemporary portraits (e.g. Francis I, King of France, 1536; b. 519).
Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe. "Musi, Agostino dei." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, http://www.oxfordartonline.com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/subscriber/article/grove/art/T060556 (accessed April 16, 2012).
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German, c. 1482 - 1539/40
