A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . *_^—^ llGVZTO WIO ALT^Al7^^^TlERMA^©DATa iCHlVAtbl COLMfE DIPv^\ANIfB CHEFFI5 NVNSIATA BHA^RETTE PSRLEI AbITAT©AEHbETTALEA ^AFV^/^AHlFRTATOLACAPJ1E DOVE DIO FIE HWVvMATOHbEH^^RA lAEVA/^vAPsf PILICIECHEWTALFIGIO tieAPAIKOTRjClfi Fig. 15.—Anon, early Florentine Engraver. The TiburtineSibyl (in the Fine Manner). have been produced in many cases for the purpose of providingprints to be used as models for the worker in niello. PROPHE
A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . *_^—^ llGVZTO WIO ALT^Al7^^^TlERMA^©DATa iCHlVAtbl COLMfE DIPv^\ANIfB CHEFFI5 NVNSIATA BHA^RETTE PSRLEI AbITAT©AEHbETTALEA ^AFV^/^AHlFRTATOLACAPJ1E DOVE DIO FIE HWVvMATOHbEH^^RA lAEVA/^vAPsf PILICIECHEWTALFIGIO tieAPAIKOTRjClfi Fig. 15.—Anon, early Florentine Engraver. The TiburtineSibyl (in the Fine Manner). have been produced in many cases for the purpose of providingprints to be used as models for the worker in niello. PROPHETS AND SIBYLS 45 Somewhat later than the Planets, but almost certainly within five The Finiguerrato ten years after Finiguerras death, come the companion series of ^*^^°°-the Prophets and the Sibyls in the Fine Manner (see Fig. 15). Intheir theatrical costume they seem to be an illustration of someSacra Rappresentazione of the Annunciation, and verses beloweach print correspond closely to such a play by Fee Belcari, of whichthe first editions, though undated, must go back as early as 1480.^. Fig. 16.—Anon, early Florentine Engraver. Design for a Plate or Lid(from the Otto series). These, lilce the prints attributed to Finiguerra, belong to what The two styleshas been called the Fine Manner group. Their engraving is °^ Florentine , , r engraving : characterised by fine lines laid closely together, and by a consider- xhe Fine andable use of somewhat irregular cross-hatching, and the result, if not Broadtheir aim, is an imitation of the tone of a washed drawing. Another ^^^^ distinct method, termed the Broad Manner, appearedin Florentine art about 1470-75, no doubt emanating from a com-pletely distinct workshop. It is a system composed of simple broad ^ Alessandro dAncona, Sacre Rappresentazioni dei sec. xiv. xv. e xvi., Florence,1872, vol. i. p. 167. See also E. Male, Gazette, 1906, p. 89. 46 THE EARLIEST ENGRAVERS lines of parallel shading, after the manne
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