Annibale Carracci - Sonatore in Piazza / A.C. ; S.G.
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Man playing lute.
Illus. in: Diverse figure al numero di ottanta, disegnate di panna, nell' hore di ricreatione, da Annibale Carracci, ... e cavate dagli originali, da Simone Guilino ... Roma : Nella Stamperia di Lodovico Grigniani, [1646], pl. 36.
Guillain, Simon, engr.
Signed on plate with initials.
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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