Pietro Aretino

Various artists/makers

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Hollar here created his own etching of an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi after a painting by Titian. The sitter is described in the engraved text as a Tuscan poet. He lived in Rome and Venice, became known for his satires criticizing powerful men. A significant influence on sixteenth-century Italian art and politics, he ruthlessly using blackmail to achieve wealth.

Pietro Aretino, Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London), Etching;  second state of four (NH)

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