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Summary
The section on architecture in the Zobel Album contains prints of ancient and modern Italian structures, as well as imaginary ones. This large print affords a bird’s-eye view of the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome designed by Michelangelo. Four mounting strips of white paper were affixed around the print so that, when it was folded in half, it fit perfectly into the album.
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.