Giulio Bonasone
Giulio Bonasone (c. 1498 – after 1574) (or Giulio de Antonio Buonasone or Julio Bonoso) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born at Bologna, where he worked from 1521 to 1574. He studied painting under Lorenzo Sabbatini. He painted a Purgatory for the church of San Stefano. He is better known as an engraver, training with Marcantonio Franceschini.
Among his portraits are those of the following:
Cardinal Pietro Bembo after Titian.
Pope Marcellus II
Philippus Hispaniarum princeps, Caroli V.
Raphael d'Urbino and Michelangelo Buonarroti
Francisca Flori Antwerpiani inter Belgos pictoris
Cardinal Niccolò Ardinghelli.
Among his engravings on devotional and mythologic topics are:
Adam & Eve, Adam tilling & Eve spinning, Holy Family, Nativity, and Resurrection based on his own designs.
The Passion (29 plates); entitled Passio Donini inri Jesu Christi based on his own designs.
Life of the Virgin (13 plates) based on his own designs.
Adam & Eve driven from Paradise; after Amico Aspertini.