Niccolo Boldrini
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Niccolo Boldrini was an Italian
Italy
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 engraver 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...

. He was frequently confused with Niccoló Vicentino. Boldrini was an engraver on wood, born at Vicenza
Vicenza
Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...

 in the early 16th century, and who was still living in 1566. His prints are chiefly after Titian
Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near...

, who may have been his master. He engraved John Baron de Schwarzenburg after Dürer and the following prints after Titian:
  • The Wise Men's Offering
  • St. Jerome praying in landscape
  • Six Saints including Catharine & Sebastian
  • Mountainous landscape with woman milking cow
  • Venus seated on a bank holding Cupid
  • Squirrel on a branch
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