Sheet of border segments: two candelabra and two horizontal pieces with putti, two corners, from Life of the Virgin and Christ
Summary
Public domain scan of a decorated illuminated manuscript page, medieval, 13th-14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - 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
1500 - 1600
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)