Hell. Engraving after Buonamico di Martino called Buffalmacco.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1480 and 1489?]

1 print : engraving ; image 21.8 x 28 cm

Questo e linferno del champo santo di Pisa.

One of the first examples, or even the very first example, of a print that explicitly sets out to reproduce a painting (Landau and Parshall, loc. cit.). Subsequently this became the main purpose of engravings, but at the time of this print, most engravings followed drawings made for the purpose of being engraved (rather than following pre-existing paintings)

The engraving was previously attributed to Baccio Baldini (ca. 1436-1487?)

D. Landau and P. Parshall, The Renaissance print 1470-1550, New Haven and London 1994, pp. 162-163

Wellcome Collection 11679i

After a fresco in the Campo Santo at Pisa which was returned to the Campo Santo in 2018 after conservation due to damage suffered in the Second World War