The Renaissance Engraver at Work, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, offers visitors a glimpse into the beauty, complexity, and technical innovation of engraving, a printmaking process that emerged in mid-1400s Europe.
Drawn exclusively from the CMA’s collection, which includes some of the world’s oldest and rarest engravings, the exhibition explores the origins of a medium that transformed the way images were created and duplicated. The Renaissance Engraver at Work, on view from Sunday, July 5, through Sunday, November 1, 2026, in the James and Hanna Bartlett Prints and Drawings Galleries 101A–B, is free and open to the public.
