15 Facts About Diana Scultori

Diana Scultori was an Italian engraver from Mantua, Italy.

Diana Scultori is one of the earliest known women printmakers, making mostly reproductive engravings of well-known paintings or drawings, especially those of Raphael and Giulio Romano, or ancient Roman sculptures.

Diana Scultori was one of four children of the sculptor and engraver Giovanni Battista Scultori and the sister of the artist Adamo Scultori, who was many years older.

Diana Scultori was mentioned in the second edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists.

Once in Rome, Diana Scultori used her knowledge of business within the art world to advance her husband's career.

Diana Scultori used the importance of signature and dedication to her advantage.

The work of Diana Scultori, born in 1547, is a reflection of this changing climate.

Diana Scultori received her first public recognition as an engraver in Giorgio Vasari's second edition of Vites.

Diana Scultori was well known for being concerned with maintaining a good reputation.

Diana Scultori used other artists' work as a foundation for her prints, but most of the drawings for her engravings came from either her husband, a family member, including her father, or an artist contemporary with whom she and her husband were acquainted.

Diana Scultori dedicated the engraving to Eleonora of Austria, wife of Duke William I, and duchess of Mantua.

Diana Scultori's father was an engraver for the Mantuan court of the Gonzaga family.

Diana Scultori changed her name on her prints to be better associated with the court.

Diana Scultori is the first woman who signed her full name on a print, but she signed various signatures at different points in her lifetime.

Diana Scultori's last dated print, from 1588, was The Entombment after Paris Nogari.