Baccio Baldini

Inferno 1, engraving after Botticelli, c. 1481, Biblioteca Riccardiana

Baccio Baldini (1436 – c. 1487) was an Italian engraver of the Renaissance, active in his native Florence.

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 and that Baldini was a pupil of Maso Finiguerra.

Engravings by Baldini were published in 1477 in a work by Antonio Bettini and also nineteen plates for a 1481 edition of Dante's Inferno. The following plates have been attributed to Baldini : Plates for the Monte Santo di Dio (1477). printed by Nicolaus Laurentii; Twenty-four of the Prophets; Twelve of the Sibyls; and a Theseus and Ariadne.

References

• Ottley, William Young. Engravers and their Works. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1831.
• Rogers, Walter Thomas. A Manual of Bibliography. London: H. Grevel & Co., 1891.
• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 71.