NO to industrial printing systems for thousands of worthless sheets,

Believer in  Bertarelli Declaration about the Original Engraving of May 5^th , 1994,

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we select for the catalogue only the best Masters of Engraving

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The assurance in the tradition of 9 ancient techniques: 

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With hollowed die:

Burin, Dry Point, Mezzotint, Stipple Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Soft Ground Engraving

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With die in relief: 

Woodcut, Linocut

an oil painting can be improvised, an engraving no.  Engraving is to engrave with the graver, to grip with the acid, to try.  It is technique, it is handicrafts, it is work, it is Art for professional men.

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compared to a painting  that binds too much and conditions a room, a black and white engraving fits whether in a traditional room or in a modern room.  You  only need to pay attention to its frame.

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Original engravings are all different for inking and manual printing.

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"Etching goes very well and it is boom in markets. Goya's and Piranesi's Art is getting either on paintings and on the market of serial copies as lithography and serigraphy", in Corriere della Sera,  october 16^th, 1993

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Engraving is curious passion,

first you buy it by chance. You put it in a folder. You read something about it. You see an exhibition with interested eye. Now the engraving is familiar, personal, beautiful, cool.
 

Engraving is an èlite choice,

because it is an engraved sign. Because all the great tradition is black and white. The colour in the lithography was born in the nineteenth century; it does not need a special work, it can be made industrially. Mantegna, Durer, Rembrandt, Goya, Fattori, Morandi are "black and white" engravers.
 

 Engraving is beauty,

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