Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Giorgio Ghisi's Engraved Mythologies, 16th century

Giorgio Ghisi after Primaticcio
Gods and Goddesses in Roundels (Apollo, Neptune, Pluto, Athena)
1560s
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi (1520-1582) was primarily a 'reproductive' artist, engaged in high-quality copying of frescoes and easel paintings by other Italian hands than his own. He made a good share of the engravings that now represent the best surviving records of Francesco Primaticcio's lost masterpieces at Fontainebleau.

Giorgio Ghisi after Primaticcio
Gods and Goddesses in Roundels (Juno, two other Goddesses, two Putti)
1560s
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Primaticcio
Gods and Goddesses in Roundels (Hercules, Bacchus, Pan, another God)
1560s
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Primaticcio
Gods and Goddesses in Roundels (Venus, two other Goddesses, two Putti)
1560s
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Primaticcio
Muses and Mythological Figures (Three Muses and Putto)
1560s
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Primaticcio
Muses and Mythological Figures (Three Muses and Putto)
1560s
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Primaticcio
Muses and Mythological Figures (Three Muses and Putto) 
1560s
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Primaticcio
Muses and Mythological Figures (Pan, Apollo and Putto)
1560s
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Perino del Vaga
Venus and Vulcan
1550s
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Teodoro Ghisi
Venus and Adonis
1570s
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi
Venus, Vulcan and Cupid
1560s
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Luca Penni
Venus and Cupid, with Mars pursuing Adonis
1556
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Giulio Romano
Cupid and Psyche
1574
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Giulio Romano
Fortune
1560s
engraving
British Museum