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Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 - Public domain portrait engraving
Summary
Head and shoulders, facing left.
Engraving by G. Rouen? after F. Benvenuti.
Illus. in: Memoire e leffre ... Galileo Galilei, 1821, frontispiece.
Ref. copy may be in Biog. File.
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Caption card tracings: A/P/P I.; BI; Shelf.
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
01/01/1821
Source
Library of Congress
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