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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 mainly 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 Raimondi.He worked mainly in Rome and with great success, producing etchings and engravings after the old masters and his own designs. He signed his plates B., I.B., Julio Bonaso, Julio Bonasone, Juli Bonasonis, Julio Bolognese Bonahso.
He has been regarded an engraver with extraordinary skills in reproducing, as he could accurately convey the sources' compositions, colours and essence. Moreover, he expressed his understanding about the controversies about religion and culture in his time through his prints. His paintings were not as well-known as his engraving, but are commendable in the sense that it incorporates elements of traditional artistic practices with Bonasone's originality.