Ars Nigra. La gravure en manière noire aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Grande Grèce Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster

This edition of La Fontaine's Fables

[3] 131-146 Revillout

and the threat of the Visigoths weighed increasingly heavily on Italy

L'un décrit la guerre

Ars Nigra. La gravure en manière noire aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Grande Grèce Jodie FosterThe technique of mezzotint engraving is said to have originated around 1640 from the bucolic but unusual conjunction of a soldier and the morning dew. The story goes that, while inspecting the guard posts at dawn, the German prince Ruprecht von der Pfalz found one of the sentries scraping the barrel of his rifle, which had been oxidized by the dew. Observing the rust speckled, half polished metal, he thought he saw figures. This was all it took for