Artist: Vittore Carpaccio (Italian, Venice 1460/66?–1525/26 Venice). Date: ca. 1505. Medium: Black chalk, point of brush and gray wash, highlighted with w...

Artist: Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) (Italian, Monticelli 1503–1572 Florence). Date: ca. 1550. Medium: Black chalk. Dimensions: 15 3/8 x 10 in. ...

Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome). Date: 1505–6. Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over stylus ruling and...

Agnolo Bronzino, "Head of a Smiling Young Woman in Three-Quarter View", ca. 1542-43. Charcoal and black chalk (with stumping), highlighted with white chalk, on of white paper; some outlines stylus-incised. Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts Graphiques...

By the end of the fifteenth century, Venice dominated the publishing market, with a majority of the books printed in Europe issuing from her presses.

Artist: Giacomo Franco (Italian, Venice 1550–1620 Venice). Publisher: Published by Giacomo Franco (Italian, Venice 1550–1620 Venice). Published in: Veni...