Egidius Sadeler
Egidius Sadeler (also Aegidius or Gilles ) (c.1570 with Antwerp -1629) is a painter and Flemish engraver Baroque.
Egidius is most known of a famous dynasty engravers who were also merchants of engravings, among which his/her uncle, Raphaël, and his father, Jan Sadeler. According to the Bouillet dictionary it treated with an equal talent the portrait and the landscape: it was called the Phoenix of engraving . The major part of its career proceeds in Prague, where it receives many orders of the emperor Rodolphe II. His/her Marco son is also a known engraver of the beginning of the XVIIe century. One owes him a engraved version of the Massacre of the innocent of Tintoret.
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- Portrait of Mathias Corvin
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