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[Galileo, 1564-1642, portrait, working at desk, facing left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Galileo, 1564-1642, portrait, working at desk, facing left] — historic print
[Galileo, 1564-1642, portrait, working at desk, facing left]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Galileo, 1564-1642, portrait, working at desk, facing left]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Galileo, 1564-1642, portrait, working at desk, facing left]

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Galileo sits at his writing desk in this portrait, turned toward the left, a pose that fits a man whose fame rested on close observation and written argument. The mezzotint method, which builds tone by roughening a copper plate and scraping away the burr, let engravers render soft shadows and the texture of paper and cloth. Galileo (1564-1642) is remembered for his telescope observations of Jupiter's moons and for his trial by the Roman Inquisition in 1633, and the caption card records no date for this particular print.

Medium1 print : mezzotint.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,057 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124525

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