David standing with crossed legs and holding the head of Goliath on a pedestal at left, a sword on the ground, after Reni
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Public domain scan - 18th-century print, 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
1000 - 1500
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Public Domain Dedication (CC0)