Friday, October 7, 2016

Prints and drawings from Italy, 16th century

Monogrammist FP
Virtue Triumphant over Vice
16th century
engraving
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

"Italy was commonly resented, in Germany for money supposedly drained away by the demands of the papacy, and everywhere for the high level of its material culture and the lightness and immorality which its amenities supposedly encouraged. This kind of anti-Italianism found particular expression in England, where an anonymous pamphlet advertised itself as 'a Discoverie of the the great subtiltie and wonderful wisdome of the Italians, whereby they beare sway over the most part of Christendome, and cunninglie behave themselves to fetch the Quintescence out of the peoples purses.'"  

- from The Waning of the Renaissance 1550-1640 / William J. Bouwsma (Yale University Press, 2000)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Figure in Niche
1564-65
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Marcantonio Raimondi
Ancient statue at the Vatican of recumbent Cleopatra
16th century
engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum

Marcantonio Raimondi
Apollo Belvedere
ca. 1510-27
engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Agostino dei Musi
Infant Hercules strangling serpents
1533
engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum

Agostino dei Musi
Iphigenia about to sacrifice Orestes and Pylades
early 16th century
engraving
Victoria & Albert Museum

Enea Vico
Leda and Swan
1542
engraving
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Giulio Bonasone
Circe and the Companions of Ulysses
1530s
engraving
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous print-maker after Giulio Romano
Personification of Victory
ca. 1563-65
engraving
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Giacomo Francia
Bacchus & Attendants
16th century
engraving
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Denys Calvaert after Michelangelo
Figure study from The Last Judgment
1574
drawing
British Museum

Alessandro Allori
Youth bending and lifting
ca. 1600
drawing
British Museum

Alessandro Allori
Youth with sheaf of corn
ca. 1600
drawing
British Museum

circle of Alessandro Allori
Diana and sleeping Endymion
ca. 1600
drawing
British Museum