Anton Francesco Lucini (1610 – after 1661) was an Italian engraver and printmaker, best known for his

etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...

s of the work ''

Dell'Arcano del Mare ''Dell'Arcano del Mare'' by Sir Robert Dudley is a 17th-century maritime encyclopaedia, the sixth part of which comprises a maritime atlas of the entire world, which is the first such in print, the first made by an Englishman, and the first to ...

'' by Sir Robert Dudley. Gioco del ponte lucini 1649

Lucini was born at

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...

and he studied etching under

Stefano della Bella Stefano della Bella (17 May 1610 – 12 July 1664) was an Italian draughtsman and printmaker known for etchings of a great variety of subjects, including military and court scenes, landscapes, and lively genre scenes. He left 1052 prints, and sev ...

and

Jacques Callot Jacques Callot (; – 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). He is an impor ...

, who had lived in Florence 1612–1621, and whose prints imparted a strong influence to Florentine printmakers. Lucini worked at a series of engravings entitled ''Disegni della guerra, assedio dell'armata turchesca all'Isola di Malta l'anno MDXLV'' published in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

(1631). Then he worked at the monumental work ''Dell'arcano del mare'' by Sir Robert Dudley published in

1646–1647. The distinctive Baroque style of Dudley's charts is attributable to the elegant engraving of Antonio Francesco Lucini, who stated that he spent 12 years and used 5,000 pounds of copper to produce the plates of exceptional quality.

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Work by Anton Francesco Lucini
1610 births Italian printmakers Italian engravers Artists from Florence 1660s deaths {{Italy-engraver-stub