(b Verona or Parma, c. 1500–05; d ?Kraków, 26 Aug 1565). Italian engraver, goldsmith and medallist, active also in Poland. He is first recorded in 1526 in the entourage of Marcantonio Raimondi in Rome. There the printer and publisher Baviera introduced him to Rosso Fiorentino, whose allegory Fury he engraved (B. 58). Caraglio continued to collaborate with Rosso and engraved several suites, such as the Labours of Hercules (B. 44–9), Pagan Divinities in Niches (B. 24–43) and Loves of the Gods (B.9–23; two after Rosso and eighteen after Perino del Vaga). After the Sack of Rome (1527), Caraglio took refuge in Venice, where he made engravings after Titian (B. 3, 64). His presence is recorded there until 1537. By 1539 he was in Poland, probably at the recommendation of his friend Pietro Aretino, who had contacts in the court of Bona Sforza (1494–1557), wife of Sigismund I, King of Poland. By 1545 Caraglio entered the service of the King as goldsmith, medallist and engraver of hardstones. Surviving works include two signed intaglios (Paris, Bib. N.; New York, Met.), two medals (Padua, Mus. Civ.; Venice, Correr) and a cameo (Munich, Staatl. Münzsamml.). According to Vasari, he retired to Parma after the death of Sigismund I in 1548; other writers suggested he remained in Poland in the service of Sigismund II Augustus, who knighted him in 1552, an event probably commemorated in his portrait by Paris Bordone (Kraków, N. A. Cols).