Italian Renaissance Prints by the Lesser Known Engravers Between the Times of Mantegrat and Marcantonio

5 November–14 December 1975

Printmaking emerged and evolved during the Renaissance through the works and innovations of artists like Cristofano Robetta, Zoan Andrea, Giovanni Pietro da Birago, Giovanni Antonio da Brescia and Benedetto Montagna of Vicenza. This exhibition demonstrated the differences between the Florentine and Manutan brands of printmaking as well as the changes wrought by later master printmakers like Marcantonio Raimundi, and influences from other regions such as Venice.

These prints came to the Smart through a loan from the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago in conjunction with Professor Earl E. Rosenthal’s Seminar of Renaissance Art and Professor Charles E. Cohen’s 15th Century Italian Painting class. 

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