Cristoforo Coriolano was a German

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 engraver of the Renaissance

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He was born in Nuremberg

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. He moved to Italy

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 and changed his name from Lederer

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 for that of Coriolano. He engraved on wood. In the Life of Marcantonio Raimondi

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, the biographer Vasari assured that his Maestro Cristofano, after achieving some success in Venice

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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 Ulisse Aldrovandi

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. He died in Venice

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 in the beginning of the 17th century. His sons Giovanni Battista Coriolano

Giovanni Battista Coriolano

Giovanni Battista Coriolano was an Italian engraver of the Baroque period.He was almost certainly the son of the German transplant to Italy, the engraver Cristoforo Coriolano. Giovanni Battista was born and died in Bologna. He studied painting under Giovanni Luigi Valesio, but found little work...

 and Bartolommeo Coriolano

Bartolommeo Coriolano

Bartolommeo Coriolano was an Italian engraver during the Baroque period. His father, Cristoforo Coriolano, and brother, Giovanni Battista Coriolano were also woodblock printers, although there is some doubt over the actual relationship between Cristoforo and Bartolommeo Coriolano...

 became eminent engravers in the Baroque

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period.