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Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: The First Illustrated Books | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

... Verona that the first illustrated edition of the fables of Aesop was published in 1479 (21.4.3), with woodcuts designed by Liberale da Verona, one of the city's leading painters. While most of the early books printed in Italy were classics intended ...

Scene from a Novella, cassone panel;

Tempera on wood 13 x 16 1/8 in. (33 x 41 cm)

Gwynne Andrews Fund, 1986 (1986.147)

?Captain Alfred Loewenstein, Brussels and London (d. 1928) [Gimpel and Wildenstein, New York, by 1928–30] Henry Wauters, Brussels (in 1932) sale, Sotheby's, London, April 9, 1986, no. 80, as by Francesco di Giorgio, Girolamo da Cremona, or Liberale da Verona, to Newhouse for MMA