Identifier: engravingetching00lipp (find matches)
Title: Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lippmann, Friedrich, 1839-1903 Lehrs, Max, 1855-1938 Hardie, Martin, 1875-1952
Subjects: Engraving -- History Etching -- History
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bsolutely no trace ofGerman influence, but the engravings of the Master E. S.of 1466 probably came to the knowledge of Florentineartists soon after their appearance. This is particularlynoticeable in a series of twelve engravings, probably ofFlorentine origin, representing the Twenty-four Prophets(fig- 35)- Their unknown designer has striven to imitatethe free and supple technique of the German master,and at the same time has borrowed ideas for the figuresof his apostles from the position and arrangement of thefigures in the Apostle series of the Master E. S. Out of the crowd of anonymous engravers someindividually known masters gradually begin to emerge.One of the first is the painter and goldsmith, AntonioPollaiuolo (1429—1498), who worked in Florence andRome. One of his two large engravings, picturingfights between naked men, bears the signature OpusAntonii Pollaiuoli Florentini, and in its vigorous drawingand exaggerated expression of muscles shows a strong ENGRAVING IN ITALY 75
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Fig. 35. Florentine engraver of the fifteenth century : The Prophet Daniel. 76 ENGRAVING IN ITALY correspondence withthe painters style.That the Hne-workis not strictly char-acteristic of Pollai-uolos style may beexplained on theground that theartist was unused tothe technique of en-graving ; at the sametime it 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, and whoseartistic individifalitycan be defined with any certainty. Robetta possessed onlymediocre talent, yet he makes up for his weakness to someextent by a natural freshness, which he imparts to the

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