Excerpt from Engraving Metals: With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams Andrea Montagna, born at Padua in 1415, was the first artist of note who engraved plates to be printed from. As a painter his fame became great, and his works are much admired. A wish to see his com positions widely spread was probably his chief motive for adopting and fostering the art of engrav ing. Montagna's prints ought, strictly speaking, to be considered the first engravings executed in Italy until then the work had remained in the hands of the goldsmiths and metal-workers. Engravers kept pace with the general progress of art in Italy, but, after having produced works in which the feeling for colour and form is expressed with peculiar talent, they appear to have suddenly sunk into ih activity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.