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Three beached whales, 1577. Johannes Wierix [1] (1549 – c. 1620) was a Flemish engraver, draughtsman and publisher. He was a very accomplished engraver who made prints after his own designs as well as designs by local and foreign artists.
Though, like other prints, his are often loosely described as "engravings", the main technique he used was etching, with some prints entirely in true engraving or in drypoint. Many prints used a mixture of techniques, as was common at the time. In all he produced about 300 prints. He is famous for revising prints, sometimes over a period of ...
Toggle Old master print period – c. 1800 subsection. 1.1 15th century. 1.1.1 Northern. ... Giulio Campagnola En (invented stipple engraving) Domenico Campagnola En, Wo;
Lewin was born in Cheshire in 1963. [2] She studied Fine Art Printmaking at the Central School of Art and Design, London between 1983 and 1986. That was followed by a year's part-time postgraduate printmaking at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, and then garden design at Capel Manor College. [1]
Plate of Marcantonio, from Le vite de’ piv eccellenti pittori, scvltori, e architettori (Fiorenza: Appresso i Giunti, 1568), by Giorgio Vasari. Marcantonio Raimondi, often called simply Marcantonio (c. 1470/82 – c. 1534), [1] was an Italian engraver, known for being the first important printmaker whose body of work consists largely of prints copying paintings.
Like in the print, most of the space of Rembrandt's work is taken up by the main motif, which is the disciples on the boat struggling against the elements. The Dutch painter Simon de Vlieger was also inspired by the print for his treatment of the same subject (1637, Art Collection of the University Göttingen). De Vlieger depicts the boat in a ...
Copper engraving: 316 × 225 mm: B61 The Penance of St John Chrysostom: 1494–1498: Copper engraving: 183 × 119 mm: B63 The Deformed Landser Sow: 1494–1498: Copper engraving: 118 × 126 mm: B95 The Prodigal Son: 1494–1498: Copper engraving: 247 × 191 mm: B28 The Small Fortune: 1495–1496: Copper engraving: 120 × 66 mm: B78 The Small ...
In intaglio printing, the lines to be printed are cut into a metal (e.g. copper) plate by means either of a cutting tool called a burin, held in the hand – in which case the process is called engraving; or through the corrosive action of acid – in which case the process is known as etching.