Baccio Baldini
Italian goldsmith and engraver (c. 1436 - 1487) · Italy · On the map · Actors · Died at 51
Baccio Baldini was an Italian goldsmith and engraver of the Renaissance, active in his native Florence.
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![The Cruelty of Love, one of the Otto prints, 101 mm across, engraving attributed to Baldini or his workshop.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Otto_p9_%28cropped%29.png/500px-Otto_p9_%28cropped%29.png)
The Cruelty of Love, one of the Otto prints, 101 mm across, engraving attributed to Baldini or his workshop.[1]
The Judgment Hall of Pilate, 1465-85, attributed to Baccio Baldini. Engraving, 43.5 x 58.1 cm (17 1/8 x 22 7/8 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Inferno 1, engraving after Botticelli, c. 1481, Biblioteca Riccardiana
One of the few fully coloured pages of the later Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli, illustrating canto XVIII in the eighth circle of Hell. Dante and Virgil descending through the ten chasms of the circle via a ridge.
Death of Aeschylus in the Florentine Picture-ChronicleAbout this person
All that is known of Baldini's life, apart from the date of his burial in Florence, is what Vasari says of him: that Baldini was a goldsmith and pupil of Maso Finiguerra, the Florentine goldsmith who was, according to Vasari's incorrect claim, the inventor of engraving. Vasari says Baldini based all of his works on designs by Sandro Botticelli because he lacked disegno himself. Today Baldini is best remembered for his collaboration with Botticelli on the first printed Dante in 1481, where it is believed the painter supplied the drawings for Baldini to turn into engravings, but it does not seem to be the case that all his work was after Botticelli. He has long been attributed with a number of other engravings as the leading practitioner of the Florentine Fine Manner of engraving, this rather tentatively; he is often given a "workshop" or "circle" to ease uncertainty.
