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Martino Rota, engraver
Italian, 1520 - 1583
The Penitent Magdalene in the Desert, 16th century
Engraving
19.4 x 14.7 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.36433

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artist, Tiziano Vecellio (Titian)

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Artist Biography: Draughtsman and engraver. Born in Sabenico, Dalmatia, active in Rome in 1540's. Moved to Florence and then Venice. Used etching and engraving together in his plates. By 1568 was employed at imperial Hapsburg court in Vienna (see: RW p. 58)~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. vol. XVI, pp. 144-165. Wurzburg: 1920. ~Zerner, H. Italian Artists of the Sixteenth Century, School of Fontainebleau. vol 33. New York: 1979, Abaris Books.~Reed, Sue Welsh and Richard Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque. Boston: 1989, Museum of Fine Arts. ~