Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Giorgio Ghisi, Renaissance Engraver

Giorgio Ghisi after Giulio Romano
The Three Fates - Clotho, Lachesis,  Atropos
1558-59
engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art

More work by master engraver Giorgio Ghisi (1520-1582) who broadened the reputations of Italian painters in 16th-century Europe with these meticulous monochrome renderings.  

Giorgio Ghisi after Giulio Romano
Allegory of Sickness
ca. 1540
engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Giorgio Ghisi after Bronzino
The Nativity
1553-54
engraving
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Giorgio Ghisi after Polidoro da Caravaggio
Caius Marius in prison
1560s
engraving
British Museum

Giogrio Ghisi after Teodoro Ghisi
Angelica and Medoro
ca. 1570
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Perino del Vaga
Neptune
ca. 1550-70
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Giulio Romano
Hercules
1567
engraving
British Museum

Giorgio Ghisi after Giovanni Battista Bertani
Hercules and the Hydra
ca. 1550-58
engraving
British Museum

Giogio Ghisi
Farnese Hercules
1570s
engraving
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Giorgio Ghisi
Allegory of Life
1561
engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Giogio Ghisi
Danae, Perseus and Ancrisius embarking
1543
engraving
British Museum

Giogio Ghisi
Virgin of Sorrows (surrounded by nine thematic cuts)
ca. 1575
engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Giorgio Ghisi
Mourning Angel (from Virgin of Sorrows panel)
ca. 1575
engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Giorgio Ghisi
Mourning Angel (from Virgin of Sorrows panel)
ca. 1575
engraving
Metropolitan Museum of Art