Giovanni Britto
Giovanni Britto is a Renaissance-era printmaker whose surviving output centres on the woodcut, a medium that suited the bold, clearly defined portraiture of sixteenth-century court imagery. His subjects are rulers and powerful figures, rendered in stark linear profiles that carry the emblematic authority expected of such commissions. The archive holds a single sheet by Britto: a woodcut portrait of Charles V, shown bust-length with a sword and facing right, dated 1535. Impressions up to that year are documented, and the collection reflects this narrow but characteristic slice of his work.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
