OBJECT

definition: stampa

SUBJECT

identification: Apostolo con un libro
: Apostle with a Book

LOCATION

Washington D.C., Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

PROVENIENZA

DATE

sec. XVI, secondo quarto
1540 ca. - 1549 ca.

AUTHOR

TECHNICAL DATA

xilografia; chiaroscuro; mm 405 x 215 ca.
medium material: carta
watermark: presente: flowering fleur de lys in a circle surmounted by a star

CONSERVATION

buono

MODALITÀ DI CONSERVAZIONE

RESTORATIONS

INSCRIPTIONS











STEMMI, MARCHI

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

Chiaroscuro woodcut from 4 blocks, light red/medium red/gray-red/black

See comment in ALU.1011.1
from
Naoko Takahatake, The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June-September 2018, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, October 2018-January 2019, DelMonico Books/Prestel, Munich-London-New York, 2018, pp. 179-183.

Other impressions:

-BnF EA 26 boite Fol: blues/black (wmk: Medici arms)
-Marucelliana XXV, 10: blues/black
-PnBO B 58 st.sc: blues/black
-GDSU 70 st. sc: dark blues/black
-GDSU 71 st. sc: blues/black
-GDSU 72 st. sc: greens

Variant impressions:

-V&A 29893: without darkest block

PHOTOGRAPHS

type of material: fotografia digitale
ente proprietario: Washington, Library of Congress ©

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Passavant J.D., Le peintre-graveur: contenant l'Histoire de la gravure sur bois, sur métal et au burin jusque vers la fin du XVI siècle [...], Paris, 1860-1864, v. VI, p. 15, n. 8 
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/passavant1860ga

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gordley B.P., The drawings of Beccafumi, 1988, Princeton, p. 270
, Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo, Milano, 1990, p. 495, n. 167 (De Marchi A.)
Lincoln E., The invention of the Italian Renaissance printmaker, 2010, pp. 106-107
Gnann A., In Farbe! Clair-obscur-Holzschnitte der Renaissance - Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Georg Baselitz und der Albertina in Wien, Monaco, 2013, pp. 244–246, nn. 116–120
Takahatake N., The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy, Los Angeles, 2018, pp. 179-183 (Takahatake N.), p. 181, n. 73 
https://www.thelacmastore.org/products/the-chiaroscuro-woodcut-in-renaissance-italy?_pos=1&_sid=ce2a0cc2a&_ss=r

MOSTRE/ESPOSIZIONI

Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA., June - September 2018 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 2018 - January 2019, 2018-2019

ENTRY'S AUTHOR

Takahatake N., 2020
Takahatake N., Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento, ALU.1012.1, https://archivi.cini.it/storiaarte/detail/47462/stampa-47462.html, ISBN 978-88-96445-24-2