A phoenix sat atop a tree, wings open, an assortment of animals below
Summary
After Master of the Die (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1530–60)
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
1530 - 1559
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)