The Guardian Angel: an angel at left placing his hand on the head of a sleeping seated man
Summary
De-accessioned as a duplicate from the British Museum (BM reg number 1934,0804.50).
Jacopo de' Barbari (Italian, active Venice by 1497–died by 1516 Mechelen or Brussels)
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
1500
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)