Landscape with an Old Shepherd and his Dog

The young Venetian printmaker Musi proudly signed this print as his own invention. In reality, he derived the flute-playing shepherd from an engraving by his fellow townsman Giulio Campagnola, while for the buildings he looked at prints by the German artist Albrecht Dürer. This fusion of northern and southern elements is a characteristic feature of the beginning of the landscape as an independent subject in printmaking.