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KULENOVIC C o l l e c t i o n - Works on Paper |
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Maso Finiguera
Firences graphic artist )
“Venere” 1426 -
1464
engraving
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Tommasoii Finiguerra (1426 - 1464), was an Italian goldsmith, draftsman, and
engraver working in Florence, whose name is distinguished in the history of art and
craftsmanship for reasons which are partly mythical. Giorgio Vasari claims Finiguerra
invented the printmaking technique of engraving (using that word in its popular sense of
taking impressions on paper from designs engraved on metal plates to create prints). This
made him a crucial figure in the history of old master prints and remained widely believed
until the early twentieth century. However, it was gradually realised that Vasari's view,
like many of his assertions as to the origins of technical advances, could not be
sustained. Typically, Vasari had overstated the importance of a fellow-Florentine, and a
fellow-Italian, since it is now clear that engraving developed in Germany before Italy.
Although he clearly was an important artist of his time, few surviving works, and no
surviving prints, can now be definitely attributed to him, so scholarly interest in him
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