Agostino Veneziano, (1490 - 1540)
Hisreal name was Agostino de' Musi, (Venice ca. 1490 - Rome ca. 1540). He was an important and prolific Italian engraver of the Renaissance.He trained in his native Venice initially copying prints by Albrecht Dürer and Giulio Campagnola. He spent some time in Florence and moved to Rome, perhaps as early as 1514 and joined the printmaking workshop of Marcantonio Raimondi, of which he was one of the most important members until it was broken up by the Sack of Rome in 1527. Unlike many produced by the workshop, most of Agostino's plates avoided being confiscated and melted down by Charles V's soldiers, and continued to be printed in later years. Agostino returned to Venice after the sack, and later visited Mantua and Florence before returning to Rome in 153. It is assumed he died there. Passavant attributed 188 prints to him, though a new total would probably increase this number; 141 prints have his monogram, and probably all are by him.