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The Execution of Haman - Fresco, public domain photogrpaph
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This print features a detail from Michelangelo’s fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Represented is Haman, the condemned persecutor of the Jews, from the Book of Esther. Prints of Michelangelo’s paintings were popular among tourists visiting Rome, and were available also in other Italian cities, including Venice.
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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