INTAGLIO

Intaglio

Intaglio is the family of printing and printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface, and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink. It is the direct opposite of a relief print.

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intaglio

Noun

  1. A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
  2. Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.


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