1505
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Saint John the Baptist is a 1505 ink by Giulio Campagnola, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This engraving shows a bearded man standing in a landscape. He’s wrapped in a flowing robe, holding a cloth in one hand. Behind him, a small village sits on rolling hills, with trees and a tower in the distance. The artist used tiny dots and lines to create shading, giving the figure depth. This method is called stipple engraving. Next, look up engraving, cross-hatching to see how artists build shadows with lines.
Giulio Campagnola (Italian: ; c. 1482 – c. 1515) was an Italian engraver and painter, whose few, rare, prints translated the rich Venetian Renaissance style of oil paintings of Giorgione and the early Titian into the…
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