Jupiter and Semele embracing, an eagle beneath them, a tree at right with a blank tablet hanging from a branch, a winged putto holding a thunderbolt at left
Summary
Public domain photo of Italian art print, 16th century, 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
1515 - 1526
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Public Domain Dedication (CC0)