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Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Engravings by Early Italian Masters: With an Introduction and Biographical Notes In the beginning of the sixteenth century engraving underwent a radical alteration in its relation to Italian art. The striving of the new era toward the development of an ideal of form, which was inspired by the study of the antique, affected very strongly the hitherto simply graphic style of the con temporary engravers. More actual effect was demanded from an engraving. It was required that a print should be not merely a sketch, more or less in outline, but an actual realization of the subject. This fact may account for the sculpturesque quality which is noticeable in Italian prints of this period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.