Bust profile portrait of Catherine de' Medici in an ornamented frame,from 'Portraits of some princes and illustrious people' ('Ritratti di alcuni prencipi, et huomini illustri'; also titled 'Imagines quorundam principum et illustrium virorum'), published by Bolognino Zaltieri in Venice in 1568
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Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
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Date
1567
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Public Domain Dedication (CC0)