The Miraculous Draught of Fishes by Jacopo Bassano

Ugo da Carpi after Raphael, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, unknown date, chiaroscuro woodcut, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Jacopo's Miraculous Draught of Fishes is based on Raphael's composition, but he never actually saw that work. His source was a chiaroscuro woodcut copy of Raphael's cartoon made by an artist named Ugo da Carpi.

Prints that reproduced paintings became extremely important during the Renaissance (and remained so until the invention of photography) because they allowed artists in distant cities to study each other's work. Jacopo relied heavily on prints; he lived in a small town and could not travel to Rome and Florence, Italy's great artistic centers. He only infrequently went to Venice, even though it was nearby. Instead, he developed a large collection of prints, which he studied closely and from which he developed his images.