Baccio Baldini was an Italian

Italy

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 engraver

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

 of the Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

, active in his native Florence

Florence

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Biography

Little is known of Baldini's life. The biographer Vasari noted that Baldini was a goldsmith who based all of his works on Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance...

 and that Baldini was a pupil of Maso Finiguerra

Maso Finiguerra

Maso Tommasoii Finiguerra was an Italian goldsmith, draftsman, and engraver working in Florence, whose name is distinguished in the history of art and craftsmanship for reasons which are partly mythical....

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Engravings by Baldini were published in 1477 in a work by Antonio Bettini

Antonio Bettini

Antonio Bettini was an Italian clergyman and writer.Bettini was born in Siena in 1396. He joined the convent of San Girolamo in Siena in 1439 and worked closely with Pope Pius II. Pius made Bettini bishop of Foligno in 1461. For Pope Sixtus IV, Bettini may have traveled to France and Germany...

 and also nineteen plates for a 1481 edition of Dante's

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 Inferno. The following plates have been attributed to Baldini : Plates for the Monte Santo di Dio (1477). by Niccolo Lorenzo della Magna in 1431; Twenty-four of the Prophets; Twelve of the Sibyls; and a Theseus and Ariadne.