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Cristoforo Coriolano (born 1540) was a German engraver of the Renaissance.He was born in Nuremberg. He moved to Italy and changed his name from Lederer for that of Coriolano. He engraved on wood. In the Life of Marcantonio Raimondi the biographer Vasari assured that his Maestro Cristofano after achieving some success in Venice engraved on wood the portraits of the painters sculptors and architects after Vasari’s designs for his Lives of the Painters first published in 1568.
