Jan Harmensz Muller - Venus and Mercury
Summary
Mercurius en Venus omhelzen elkaar. Achter Venus staat Amor met een pijl in zijn hand. Een putto pakt de caduceus van Mercurius aan. Op de voorgrond twee duiven bij de boog van Amor.
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
1598 - 1602
Source
Rijksmuseum
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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")