Pietro Antonio Martini - Exposition au Salon du Louvre en 1787
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Pietro Antonio Martini (Italian, Trescali 1738–1797 Parma)
Public domain scan of Italian 17th-century print, 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.
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Date
1600 - 1700
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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