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Mario Cartaro

Also known as: Mario Cartaro; primary name: Cartaro, Mario; other name: Cartari, Mario; other name: Cartarus, Mario; other name: Kartarus, Mario
Details: individual; printmaker; publisher/printer; Italian; Male
Life dates: fl.1560-1620
Biography: Engraver, print dealer and publisher, from Viterbo. b.1540/5 (see Leuschner 2005, p.136). Active in Rome 1557-1586/8; in Naples by 1588. First dated work 1560. He engraved and published his own work and also acquired plates from others. He was also a plate printer (Cattaneo p.3). The Museum of the History of Science in Florence has a printed celestial globe signed by him, 1577; there is a matching terrestrial globe in the Monte Mario Observatory in Rome (Fiorini). Broadside of horse diseases sold Bloomsbury Auctions New York 24.x.2007/33. His production seems to have concentrated on devotional subjects and maps. Large map of Rome 1576. He took on commissions for copperplates from Ferrando Bertelli in Venice: three maps of 1562-63 (Tooley). Plates in Vaccari stocklist of 1614 (Ehrle).
Bibliography: Bartsch XV, pp.520-32 (28 nos, very incomplete) A Cattaneo, Grafica d'Arte 35 1998, pp.2-9, followed by a catalogue of his engravings in 2000 (41 pp.6-14 and 42 pp.3-11)

29 related objects

print

Museum number: 1874,0808.324 |
Producer name: Print made by:Mario CartaroAfter:Francesco Salviati |
Production date: 1563

print

Museum number: 1874,0613.655 |
Producer name: Print made by:Mario CartaroAfter:Francesco Salviati |
Production date: 1563

print

Museum number: Ii,5.41 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1561

print

Museum number: 1934,0103.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:Mario CartaroAfter:Michelangelo |
Production date: 1569 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print; game-board

Title: Filosofia cortesana de Alonso de Barros |
Museum number: 1869,0410.2463.+ |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1588 |
Production place: Published in:Naples (city)

print

Museum number: 1928,0417.36 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1567 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Museum number: 1869,0410.1044 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1560-1575

print

Title: The Belvedere garden in the Vatican |
Museum number: 1871,0812.778 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1574

print; map

Title: Palestinae sive Terrae Sanctae Descriptio |
Museum number: 1874,0613.585 |
Producer name: Print made by:Mario CartaroPublished by:Giovanni Francesco della Gatta |
Production date: 1557

print

Museum number: 1870,1008.1985 |
Producer name: Print made by:Mario CartaroAfter:Bartolommeo Neroni, called Riccio |
Production date: 1564

print

Museum number: 1874,0613.654 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1567

print

Museum number: 1874,0613.652 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1566

print

Museum number: 1869,0410.14 |
Producer name: Print made by:Mario CartaroAfter:Marco Pino |
Production date: 1571

print

Museum number: 1869,0410.1855 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1561

print

Museum number: 1868,0328.374 |
Producer name: Print made by:Mario CartaroAfter:Michelangelo |
Production date: 1566

print

Title: Ritratto nel quale si rappresenta il vero sito dell' horti et fontane che con ingeniosissimi adornam |
Museum number: 1871,0812.808 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1575

print

Title: Theatrum Plutonis |
Museum number: 1974,0511.3 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1581

print

Museum number: 1870,0709.716 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1567 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Theatrum Apollinis |
Museum number: 1869,0410.1045 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1581

print

Museum number: 1872,0511.818 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1573 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Sciographia cenotaphij ... Portugalliae Regis Sebastiani |
Museum number: 1871,0812.790 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1578

print; pattern-book

Museum number: 1934,0103.14.42 |
Producer name: Published by:Pietro StefanoniAfter:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1597-1629 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Pius V Ghislerius Alexand. |
Museum number: 1857,0214.414 |
Producer name: Print made by:Mario CartaroPublished by:Bartolomeo Faleti |
Production date: 1567 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Museum number: 1856,1213.59 |
Producer name: Print made by:Mario CartaroAfter:Giulio Romano |
Production date: 1560-1575 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Museum number: 1874,0613.656 |
Producer name: Print made by:Mario CartaroAfter:Andrea Mantegna |
Production date: 1566

print

Museum number: 1874,0711.754 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1567 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Museum number: 1874,0613.657 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1566

print

Museum number: 1874,0613.653 |
Producer name: Print made by:Mario CartaroAfter:Agostino Veneziano |
Production date: 1567 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Museum number: Ii,5.103 |
Producer name: BIOG22108 Print made by:Mario Cartaro |
Production date: 1560-1575

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