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Last Name Lafrére / Lafréry / Lafreri / Lafrérie

Given Name Antoine / Antonio

alt. Names A. L. ; Antoine Lafrérie / Lafréry / Antonio Lafrery / Antonius Lanfrerius ; Lafrére / Lafreri

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Year born 1512 in Forgelet, then Burgundy, nowadays France

Year died 1577

Place of death Rome

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Country of Activity Italy

Worked for peculum romanae magnificentiae (Rome 1548, with 148 etchings) ; Geographia, tavole moderne di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo (1570) ; Ippolito Salviani (1514-1572): Aquatilium animalium historia 1554-7;

Patronage

Collaborators engraver -> Nicolas Beatrizet ; artist Bernardus Aretinus ; artist Gaspar Becerra ;

Techniques zoological, cartographical, and topographical drawing, painting, copperplate engraving & etching, transfer drawing ; hand-colourin and publishing ;

Sample(s) www.google.de/search?q="Antonio+Lafreri ; www.virtuelles-kupferstichkabinett.de/?selTab=3&currentWerk=36487 ;

Archival sources

Published sources AKL ; ThB 22 1928: 215 ;C. J. Schüler: Die kartographierte Stadt (Paris 2011: 112-113, 120f.,128f. & 240f.) ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 3556? ;

other Born in Burgundy, A.L. moved to Rome where he was active as publisher, cartographer & map-printer.

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