Imaginary portrait head of a man wearing a cap and fur-trimmed coat; from the series of 22 imaginary portrait heads after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
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Public domain photograph of 18th-century portrait painting, 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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johann lorenz haid
johann christian leopold
giovanni battista piazzetta
prints
augsburg
bavaria
johann lorenz haid 1702 1750
giovanni battista piazzetta 1682 1754
imaginary portrait head
portrait heads
hats
men
portraits
the elisha whittelsey collection the elisha whittelsey fund
engravings
intaglio prints
mezzotints
after giovanni battista piazzetta
imaginary
portrait
head
man
cap
coat
series
giovanni
battista
piazzetta
18th century
high resolution
ultra high resolution
italian
engraving
metropolitan museum of art
german art
german
Date
1725 - 1755
in collections
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")