Veneziano, Agostino

Veneziano, Agostino a celebrated Italian engraver, was born in Venice near the close of the 15th century. He studied with Marcantonio Raimondi until the death of Raphael, in 1520, when he worked for himself. The large print of the Skeletons, or Burying place, after Baccio Bandinelli, is his masterpiece. Among his other works are, The Israelites Gathering the Manna (Raphael): — The Four Evangelists, and a Nativity (after Julio Romano): — Massacre of the Innocents (Bandinelli): — The Last Supper (copied from a wood-cut of Albrecht Direr. Nothing is known of him after 1536.