Battista Franco - Flora, Anonymous, Italian Print, 16th century
Summary
Engraved by Anonymous, Italian, second half of the 16th century
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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
1560 - 1569
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Public Domain Dedication (CC0)