Maso Finiguerra
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Maso Tommasoii Finiguerra was an Italian goldsmith, niellist, draftsman, and engraver working in Florence, who was incorrectly described by Giorgio Vasari as the inventor of engraving as a printmaking
A Warrior Subduing Another, drawing
Coronation of the Virgin, niello, 1452, Bargello
Niello pax with the Crucifixion, Bargello
Pax (liturgical object)
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The pax or pax board was an object used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance for the kiss of peace in the Catholic Mass. Direct kissing among the celebrants and congregation was replaced by each in turn
Maso Finiguerra
…over by the painter Alessio Baldovinetti to a customer in payment or exchange for a dagger. In 1452 Maso delivered and was paid for a niellated silver pax commissioned for the Florence Baptistery by the Arte di Calimala or cloth merchant's guild. By 1457 he had left his father's workshop and partnered…
Ivory pax with Crucifixion, Germany or France, 15th century
Northern Italy, c. 1480, Glass, paint, gilt, copper, metal foil, 10.16 cm (4.00 in) high
Pax including a plaquette by Valerio Belli, 1520s
Rococo pax of 1726, for the Imperial Chapel of the Hofburg Palace in Vienna; by this time paxes were largely out of use in ordinary churches