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sheets shaded with delicate hatching lines, echoing the faintly washed pen drawings in the fine manner, the broad manner engravings imitate the more energetic pen drawings of back-and-forth hatching line movement.

39 The large album of drawings that found its way to the British Museum from the former collection of John Ruskin originates from the workshop of Baccio Baldini, distinguished representative of the fine manner.

40 The pen drawings washed with bistre of the Florentine Picture Chronicles were produced with technique identical to the earlier depictions of the Budapest Model-book, and they are of similar character, even if the drawings of the Budapest Model-book are smaller and more sensitively modelled. But those pen drawings also represent this drawing manner, which was born in the last third of the fifteenth century through the increasingly frequent collaboration between the engravers and the painters. The grand-scale undertaking of the years preceding 1481 was the publication of Dante's Divine Comedy, accompanied by the commentary of Christoforo Landino, and illustrated with engravings by Baccio Baldini after drawings by Sandro Botticelli. In spite of the fact that the final version of the drawings prepared for the engravings was lost, the nearly one hundred pen drawings that have remained testify to the fact that the painter attempted with incessant modifications to adjust these to the needs of the engraver.

41 It is thanks to this manner of drawing that the young Francesco Rosselli, with the aid of Cennini's technique of carta lucida, could copy one for one to copperplate, with no modification whatsoever, the two detailed vellum drawings of Maso Finiguerra {Moses on Mount Sinai, The Deluge).

42 From the 1470 s, rivals to the model-books appeared on the scene: engraved model sheets, a good number of animal model sheets among them, which, since they were able to transmit the motifs more quickly and less expensively, slowly supplanted the traditional, but more expensive model-books.

43 Just as the painters, the engravers and goldsmiths also employed model sheets. In 1464, the brother of Maso Finiguerra, likewise a goldsmith and engraver, inherited his fourteen model drawings.

44 In the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti, where in the second half of the A. M. Hind, Early Italian Engraving: A Critical Catalogue with Complete Reproductions of all the Prints Described, vol. 1, London 1938; D. Landau and P. Parshall, The Renaissance Print 1470-1550, New Haven and London 1994, 104-16. S. Colvin, A Florentine picture-chronicle being a series of ninety-nine drawings representing themes and personages of ancient history sacred and profane by Maso Finiguerra, London 1889 (reprint, New York 1970); Corpus 1/2, cat. 566-620; Elen, op. cit. (n. 2), cat. 31. Hind, op. cit. (n. 39), 99-116; P. Bellini, "Le due série di disegni del Botticelli per la Commedia" in Botticelli e Dante, ed. C. Gizzi, Milano 1990, 41-50. Landau and Parshall, op. cit. (n. 39), 108-12. F. Ames-Lewis, The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist, 2nd ed., New Haven and London 2002, 38-44. Hind, op. cit. (n. 39), vol. 1, 301; On the Finiguerra drawings, see Corpus 1/2, cat. 620; L. Melli, Maso Finiguerra: I disegni, Florence 1995.