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Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
(b ?Brescia, c. 1460; d ?Rome, c. 1520). Italian engraver. His career can be traced through 27 engravings with his signature (usually IO.AN.B or IO.AN.BX) and many others attributed to him. He appears to have begun work in the circle of Andrea Mantegna, and a number of engravings of the Mantegna school are generally assigned to him, including three prints after Mantegna’s Triumph of Caesar (B.17b, 18b, 19b) and a version of the Four Dancing Ladies (B. 29b). This early phase probably ended about 1506, when the school dispersed after the death of Mantegna. A transition period is suggested by a group of prints that demonstrate the technical conventions of Mantegna with stylistic influence from the work of Benedetto Montagna: Nativity (B. 4); Virgin and Child (B. 9); St Barbara (B. 12); and Justice (B. 27; see fig.). In the Virgin and Child the view of a distant landscape may have been inspired by the engravings of Albrecht Dürer, which arrived in northern Italy in this period. Giovanni Antonio executed four copies of Dürer’s engraving of the Satyr Family (1505), one dated 1507 (B. 39).
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