( fl Ferrara, c. 1465). Italian engraver. Levenson gave the name to the author of a series of 50 engravings that constitutes one of the finest achievements of Italian printmaking in the 15th century. The series is subdivided into five sets of ten engravings; each image is titled and numbered within its set, and a letter indicates to which set it belongs. The sets consist of the Conditions of Man (E), Apollo and the Muses (D), the Liberal Arts (C), the Cosmic Principles (B) and the Firmaments of the Universe (A). A second version of the series exists in which the ‘E’ of the first group is replaced with the letter ‘S’. It has been generally accepted that the E-series is the original set and that the S-series is derived from it. Two figures from the E-series were copied in a manuscript of 1467 (Bologna, Archv Stato, Costituzione dello studio bolognese), which provides a terminus ante quem for the dating of the series.

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