Battista Franco - Skull in Profile
Summary
Battista Franco (Italian, Venice ca. 1510–1561 Venice) (?)
Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, 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.
Collection of Skulls, bones and skeletons.
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battista franco
drawings
ink
pen
skull
profile
16th century
italian art
historical images
high resolution
engraving
prints
artwork
history
metropolitan museum of art
medieval art
italian renaissance
apennine peninsula
Date
1538
in collections
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)