Institute of Art History / Atlante delle Xilografie italiane del Rinascimento

OBJECT

definition: stampa

SUBJECT

: The Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor

PROVENIENZA

DATE

sec. XVI, metà
1529 post - 1550 ca.

STATE

primo stato (di due)

TECHNICAL DATA

xilografia; chiaroscuro; mm 359 x 243 ca.
medium material: carta

CONSERVATION

buono

MODALITÀ DI CONSERVAZIONE

RESTORATIONS

INSCRIPTIONS











STEMMI, MARCHI

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

Chiaroscuro woodcut from 3 blocks, i state
Only known impression: a darkest block-only variant

state i/ii: inscribed in light tone block: “Taglio d'Alex.ro Ghandini”; before Andreani's address
state ii/ii: with Andreani's address added to the darkest block: “AA/ In Mantova/MDCX”

See also comment in ALU.1050.1
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. 196-199.

Andreani impression (state ii/ii):

-BM 1895,0122.1266: light brown/brown/black https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-1266

PHOTOGRAPHS

type of material: fotografia digitale
ente proprietario: Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum ©

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bartsch A., Le peintre graveur, Vienne, 1803-1821, v. XII, p. 65, n. 25

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Popham A.E., Catalogue of the drawings of Parmigianino, New Haven, 1971, v. 1, p. 214, n. 746, v. 2, tav. 208
Trotter W.H., Chiaroscuro woodcuts of the circles of Raphael and Parmigianino a study in reproductive graphics, The Univ. of North Carolina, 1974, pp. 120–121
Vasari G. - Bettarini R./ Barocchi P., Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori scultori e architettori nelle redazioni del 1550 e 1568, Firenze, 1966-1987, v. 5, p. 13, n. 148
Ekserdjian D., Parmigianino, New Haven, 2006, p. 33
Gnann A., In Farbe! Clair-obscur-Holzschnitte der Renaissance - Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Georg Baselitz und der Albertina in Wien, Monaco, 2013, p. 270, n. 132
Johnson J., "Alessandro Gandini. Uncovering the identity of a chiaroscuro woodcutter", in Print Quarterly, 2013, pp. 3-13, pp. 3-13
Takahatake N., The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy, Los Angeles, 2018, pp. 196-200 (Takahatake N.) 
https://www.thelacmastore.org/products/the-chiaroscuro-woodcut-in-renaissance-italy?_pos=1&_sid=ce2a0cc2a&_ss=r

MOSTRE/ESPOSIZIONI

ENTRY'S AUTHOR

Takahatake N., 2020
Takahatake N., Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento, ALU.1051.1, https://archivi.cini.it/storiaarte/detail/50232/stampa-50232.html, ISBN 978-88-96445-24-2
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