A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . Fig. 21.—Cristoforo Robetta. Ceres. and other northern originals at this epoch. Lucantonio mustnot be confounded with the Lucantonio da Giunta, a Florentinewho was settled as a publisher in Venice, although our engraver alsoworked in Venice, and himself turned printer at Verona in engravings are roughly and irregularly cut, and have no artisticmerit. Perhaps the most important is a large print after the much THE TAROCCHI 53 discussed L
A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . Fig. 21.—Cristoforo Robetta. Ceres. and other northern originals at this epoch. Lucantonio mustnot be confounded with the Lucantonio da Giunta, a Florentinewho was settled as a publisher in Venice, although our engraver alsoworked in Venice, and himself turned printer at Verona in engravings are roughly and irregularly cut, and have no artisticmerit. Perhaps the most important is a large print after the much THE TAROCCHI 53 discussed Last Supper in St. Onofrio in Florence (P. V. p. 194,Gotha).. 17 ??? ^ I Y •cuoxviiii 1 ly- Fig. 22.—Anon, early Italjan (from the E series of the so-called Tarocchi Cards). Turning to the north of Italy we are confronted at the outset 54 THE EARLIEST ENGRAVERS he North;alinn set ofistructive\rds MToneously\\\ed theTarocchi:irds oflantegna ). wo versionshe E series,he S series. with problems of authorship as difficult and obscure as in the caseof the school of Florence. The Tarocchi cards of Mantegna,as they have been called, are no more Tarocchi than they are byor after Mantegna, but seem to form a sort of instructive gamefor youth, if not a mere picture-book of popular designs, thesubjects represented in the fifty cards of five suits comprising thesorts and conditions of men, Apollo and the Muses, the arts andsciences, the genii and the virtues, the planets and spheres. Thereare two different sets of prints, the one engraved with much greaterprecision and finish, in which Nos. are lettered E (B. xiii. p. 131, Copi
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