Giorgio Ghisi - The Mocking of the Prisoners
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Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, Mantua ca. 1520–1582 Mantua)
Public domain scan of Italian 15th-16th-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
1540
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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