The Prophet Joel; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel
Summary
Public domain image of a 16th-17th-century print, mannerism, free to use, no copyright restrictions - 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
1570 - 1574
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Public Domain Dedication (CC0)