The Entombment

As an Italian woodcutter and printer, Andrea Andreani revitalized the chiaroscuro woodcut in Italy in the early seventeenth century by reproducing the works of other artists and reprinting earlier works from woodblocks he acquired. To create this print of “The Entombment,” Andreani translated a contemporary black-line woodcut created by the Italian painter and printmaker Giuseppe Scolari into the chiaroscuro aesthetic. Andreani’s version emulates a drawing technique involving the application of light and dark pigments on paper prepared with a medium tone, rather than a line drawing in pen and ink on plain paper.