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was in Venice from 1558, where it has been argued that he substituted for Cort, absent from Venice from 1566 to 1571, as Titian's reproductive engraver - always a difficult and demanding role - although this is controversial, as none of his prints after Titian mention below the image the 15 year
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portrait engraver. From this time he made fewer reproductive prints, and concentrated on portraiture of the Imperial family, often using assistants as not all the later prints show the fine technical quality of his earlier work. He served the Habsburgs in Vienna during the reigns of
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Chiefly an engraver of portraits, which he also painted, his drafting of the human figure is very correct, and he pays particular attention to extremities. He engraved plates entirely with the graving tool. Rota showed
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Rota usually signed his plates with his name, sometimes adding the names Sebenico and Venice, but he sometimes used a monogram consisting of a capital 'M' and a pictogram of a wheel (
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A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, from the revival of the art under Cimabue, and the alleged discovery of engraving by Finiguerra, to the present time
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Rota has been described as one of the most significant graphic artists of the second half of the 16th century, though few if any of his prints were original compositions.
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Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni età e d'ogni nazione
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and engraving on the same plates, but in an unusually sensitive manner, exploiting the differences between the two techniques.
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Rota was active until his death in 1583, leaving a small number of plates incomplete, which were completed by his pupil
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An Essay on the Utility of Collecting the Best Works of the Ancient Engravers of the Italian School
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Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in sixteenth-century Venice and Rome
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In about 1540, Rota appears in Rome, working as a reproductive engraver in the style of
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court in Vienna, where he arrived by 1568, and by 1573 he was established as the
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is now best known from Rota's engraving; he also made engravings after work by
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feeling for material. Like many printmakers of the period, he combined
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From March to April 2003, an exhibition in the Print Department of the
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Bergquist, Stephen A, "Some Early States by Martino Rota,"
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Treasures — National and University Library, Zagreb
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online at theeuropeanlibrary.org (accessed 4 March 2008)
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Perhaps with Titian's recommendation, he moved to the
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online at books.google.co.uk (accessed 4 March 2008)
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online at books.google.co.uk, accessed 12 July 2008
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Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
Order of the Golden Fleece
printmaking
Dalmatia
Šibenik (Sebenico)
Dalmatia
Venice
Rome
Vienna
Marcantonio
Cornelis Cort
Florence
copyright
Imperial
court
Maximilian II
Rudolph II
Prague

Archduke Ernest of Austria
Durerian
Venetian
etching
Renaissance
Titian
Michelangelo
Dürer
engravings
etchings

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