Enea Vico - Costume Plate: Bearded Man from Spain
Summary
Engraved by Enea Vico (Italian, Parma 1523–1567 Ferrara)
Public domain photograph of 16th-century Italian painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
1557
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)