549
Johannes (Jan) Wierix was a Flemish engraver, draughtsman, and publisher. He was a very accomplished engraver who made prints after his own designs as well as designs by local and foreign artists.
Together with other members of the Wierix family of engravers he played an important role in spreading appreciation for Netherlandish art abroad as well as in creating art that supported the Catholic cause in the Southern Netherlands. Johannes Wierix is also known for his miniature pen drawings.
Francesco Bassano the Younger Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
Sodoma (Italian: Il Sodoma), born Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, was an Italian painter of the Sienese school of painting.
Il Sodoma belongs to the outstanding masters of the High Renaissance and Early Mannerism.
Giulio Antonio Bonasone was an Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna. He possibly studied painting under Lorenzo Sabbatini, and painted a Purgatory for the church of San Stefano, but all his paintings have been lost. He is better known as an engraver and is believed to have trained with Marcantonio Raimondi. He worked mainly in Mantua, Rome and Venice and with great success, producing etchings and engravings after the old masters and his own designs.
He has been regarded an engraver with extraordinary skills in reproducing, as he could accurately convey the sources' compositions, colours, and essence. Moreover, he expressed his understanding about the controversies about religion and culture in his time through his prints. He is considered among the most important and productive engravers of the sixteenth century.
Giulio Antonio Bonasone was an Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna. He possibly studied painting under Lorenzo Sabbatini, and painted a Purgatory for the church of San Stefano, but all his paintings have been lost. He is better known as an engraver and is believed to have trained with Marcantonio Raimondi. He worked mainly in Mantua, Rome and Venice and with great success, producing etchings and engravings after the old masters and his own designs.
He has been regarded an engraver with extraordinary skills in reproducing, as he could accurately convey the sources' compositions, colours, and essence. Moreover, he expressed his understanding about the controversies about religion and culture in his time through his prints. He is considered among the most important and productive engravers of the sixteenth century.
![RONSARD, Pierre de (1524 – 1585). Les meslanges de Ronsard dédiés à Ian Brinon. Paris : Gilles Corrozet, 1555, [relié avec la suite] L’hymne de France. Paris : Michel Vascosan, 1549.](/assets/image/picture_1320883/d5dcc/26748722caa5548d15c5c6b3fa8253971616454000jpg__fix_374_244.jpeg)
![RONSARD, Pierre de (1524 – 1585). Les meslanges de Ronsard dédiés à Ian Brinon. Paris : Gilles Corrozet, 1555, [relié avec la suite] L’hymne de France. Paris : Michel Vascosan, 1549.](https://veryimportantlot.com/assets/image/picture_1320883/d5dcc/26748722caa5548d15c5c6b3fa8253971616454000jpg__fix_374_244.jpeg)
![RONSARD, Pierre de (1524-1585). Epithalame d’Antoine de Bourbon, et Ianne de Navarre par Pierre de Ronsard Vandomois. Paris : Imprimerie de [Michel de] Vascosan, 1549.](/assets/image/picture_1320893/c0bc5/09942b4681cf81b13c892f174c27ecb71616454000jpg__fix_374_244.jpeg)
![RONSARD, Pierre de (1524-1585). Epithalame d’Antoine de Bourbon, et Ianne de Navarre par Pierre de Ronsard Vandomois. Paris : Imprimerie de [Michel de] Vascosan, 1549.](https://veryimportantlot.com/assets/image/picture_1320893/c0bc5/09942b4681cf81b13c892f174c27ecb71616454000jpg__fix_374_244.jpeg)
