Printing process that produces images in line and with little tonal quality; the plate, usually of copper, is incised using a burin, the slight burr produced is scraped away, and the plate is inked for intaglio printing. OCA
This term has 20,804 records attributed within our system.
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300053231
14yrs ago
Printmaker: Bonasone, Giulio (Possibly)
Printmaker:
Villamena, Francesco
(Possibly)
Printmaker:
Caraglio, Jacopo
(After)
Painter:
Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo)
(After)
Printmaker:
Ghisi, Giorgio
Painter:
Salviati, Francesco (Francesco de' Rossi)
(After)
Printmaker:
Ghisi, Giorgio
Painter:
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
(After)
Printmaker:
Ghisi, Giorgio
(Possibly)
Painter:
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
(After)
Printmaker:
Ghisi, Giorgio
Painter:
Primaticcio, Francesco
(After)
Printmaker:
Scultori, Diana (Mantovana)
Painter:
Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi)
(After)
Printmaker:
Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna)
Publisher:
Aelst, Nicolaus van
Printmaker:
Raimondi, Marcantonio
(After)
Painter:
Sanzio, Raffaello
(After)
Printmaker:
Raimondi, Marcantonio
Publisher:
Salamanca, Antonio
Painter:
Dürer, Albrecht
(After)
Printmaker:
Scultori, Diana (Mantovana)
Painter:
Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi)
(After)
Printmaker:
Raimondi, Marcantonio
Painter:
Bandinelli, Baccio
(After)
Printmaker:
Master of the Die
Painter:
Sanzio, Raffaello
(After)
Coxie, Michiel I
(After)
Printmaker:
Scultori, Diana (Mantovana)
Painter:
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (Domenico Bigordi)
(After)
Printmaker:
Bonasone, Giulio
Painter:
Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi)
(After)
Printmaker:
Ghisi, Giorgio
Painter:
Sanzio, Raffaello
(After)
Printmaker:
Raimondi, Marcantonio
Printmaker:
Dürer, Albrecht
(After)
Printmaker:
Unknown
Printmaker:
Villamena, Francesco
(Retouched)
Printmaker:
Caraglio, Jacopo
(After)
Painter:
Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo)
(After)
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