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Martino Rota, engraver
Italian, 1520 - 1583
Emperor Rudolph II, 1592
Engraving and etching
27.2 x 17.8 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Purchase

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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. ~