Ars Nigra. La gravure en manière noire aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Grande Grèce reveals sixty years of a

reveals sixty years of a painter's life in the complexity of his creation and its extreme diversity: from surrealist paintings to writing paintings

which has never ceased

and the threat of the Visigoths weighed increasingly heavily on Italy

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Ars Nigra. La gravure en manière noire aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Grande Grèce reveals sixty years of aThe technique of mezzotint engraving is said to have originated around 1640 from the bucolic but unusual conjunction of a soldier and the morning dew. The story goes that, while inspecting the guard posts at dawn, the German prince Ruprecht von der Pfalz found one of the sentries scraping the barrel of his rifle, which had been oxidized by the dew. Observing the rust speckled, half polished metal, he thought he saw figures. This was all it took for