Object description: This engraving represents Johannes Gutenberg, a German blacksmith, goldsmith and inventor who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press and the mechanical movable type.
Why we considered it: Being one of the few portrait of Gutenberg left, we thought of this item of symbolic to identify one of the major actor behind the Printing Revolution.
Standard used: The EDM is a theoretical data model that allows data to be presented in different ways according to the practices of the various domains which contribute data to Europeana.