A Bacchanal, Silenus supported by two bacchants in the centre, at left a female satyr reclining on a bed and another holding onto the horns on a statue of Priapus while she tries to impale herself on his phallus, various other figures fill the composition

Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.