Scultori

Scultori (also Scultor (e) , Scultore and Scultori Ghisi or Mantovano ) is the name of an Italian family of artists who were mainly active in the 16th century.

The painter and sculptor Giovanni Battista Scultori (* 1503 in Mantua , hence called Mantovano; † 1575 in Mantua) was a pupil of Giulio Romano , and supported him in the work in the Palazzo del Te . We also know about 20 copper engravings, the style of which refers to Raimondi's school.

More than 130 copperplate engravings are known from his son Adamo Scultori (most of them after Michelangelo ).

The daughter Diana Scultori (* around 1536 in Mantua) was also a copperplate engraver (approx. 58 sheets after G. Romano, Zuccaro etc.) and worked in Rome from 1575 to 1588. Giorgio Vasari mentions them in his work "Le Vite de 'più eccellenti ...". Her later work shows an influence by Carracci . She married the architect Francesco Ricciarelli of Volterra.