Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors (1907)
Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903, Lehrs, Max, 1855-1938, Hardie, Martin, 1875-1952 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 96
must remaindoubtful whetherPollaiuolo was theactual engraver ofthese plates, or sim-ply the originatorof the compositions.The goldsmithCristoforo Robetta(born 1462, died atFlorence after 1522)is almost the onlyFlorentine engraverof any note atthis period whoplaced his signatureon some of hisplates,… … Fig. 36. Robetta : Poetry and Music (detail), CRISTOFORO ROBETTA 77 formula; of the Florentine School. His engravings arc onlyrarely from his own original designs ; as a rule he reproduces,with more or less freedom of rendering, compositions bythe masters of painting who surrounded him. Many ofhis…
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