Astronomy, from The Seven Liberal Arts, plate 7
Summary
In Mariette Album, folio 92, lower right
Monogrammist B (Italian, active 1540s)
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
1544
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Public Domain Dedication (CC0)