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Engraving and etching; a handbook for the use of students and print collectors (1906)

Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903, Lehrs, Max, 1855-1938, Hardie, Martin, 1875-1952 · London, H. Grevel · leaf 97

An illustration from Engraving and etching; a handbook for the use of students and print collectors, 1906, leaf 97 — 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… … Fig. 36. Robetta: Poetry and Music (detail). CRISTOFORO ROBETTA 77 formulae of the Florentine School. His engravings are 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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