Portrait of Niccolò Ardinghelli
| Reference: | S40261.5 |
| Author | Giulio BONASONE |
| Year: | 1547 ca. |
| Measures: | 176 x 319 mm |
€1,000.00
| Reference: | S40261.5 |
| Author | Giulio BONASONE |
| Year: | 1547 ca. |
| Measures: | 176 x 319 mm |
€1,000.00
Description
Engraving, circa 1547, in the center “NICOLAO ARDIGHELLO / CARDINALIS / ANNUM AGENS XLIIII // MAIORUM MEMORIAE NEPOTUMQUE / IMITATIONI.
A fine impression, printed with tone on contemporary laid paper with “three mountains and letter F in a shield”, trimmed to the borderline on three side, just inside the platemark at the bottom, a light paper fold on the left edge, otherwise in good condition.
Bust portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Ardinghelli set within an elaborate cartouche against a wall.
Bonasone's engraving is inspired by the portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Ardinghelli (1503 - 1547) on the sepulchral monument in S. Maria sopra Minerva, in Rome.
A very rare work.
Two collector’s mark at the bottom: “F P” (not in Lugt) and another one unreadable.
Literature
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Bartsch, 348; Le Blanc I, p. 448 n. 346; Massari, p. 75, n. 89.
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Giulio BONASONE (Bologna circa 1500 - Roma circa 1580)
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Giulio Bonasone was born in Bologna in 1510; he was engraver, etcher and, as a painter, he was a pupil of Lorenzo Sabbatici.
The critics have ascribed to him 400 prints; nearly all of them are kept nowadays in the Institute of Graphic Design in Rome, widening the list of Bartsch, who had identified just 354 subjects. Bonasone started working in 1531 as copperplate engraver, as it can be seen from his S. Cecilia, and he was considered a follower of Marcantonio’s style in the last years. But Bonasone showed his own style quite soon, for Parmigianino asked him to engrave many of his works.
He lived in Rome between 1544 and 1547, working for the most important publishers of the time (Salamanca, Barlacchi, Lafrery), engraving subjects from Michelangelo, Raphael, Giulio Romano, Perin del Vaga and Polidoro da Caravaggio with his peculiar style.
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Literature
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Bartsch, 348; Le Blanc I, p. 448 n. 346; Massari, p. 75, n. 89.
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Giulio BONASONE (Bologna circa 1500 - Roma circa 1580)
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Giulio Bonasone was born in Bologna in 1510; he was engraver, etcher and, as a painter, he was a pupil of Lorenzo Sabbatici.
The critics have ascribed to him 400 prints; nearly all of them are kept nowadays in the Institute of Graphic Design in Rome, widening the list of Bartsch, who had identified just 354 subjects. Bonasone started working in 1531 as copperplate engraver, as it can be seen from his S. Cecilia, and he was considered a follower of Marcantonio’s style in the last years. But Bonasone showed his own style quite soon, for Parmigianino asked him to engrave many of his works.
He lived in Rome between 1544 and 1547, working for the most important publishers of the time (Salamanca, Barlacchi, Lafrery), engraving subjects from Michelangelo, Raphael, Giulio Romano, Perin del Vaga and Polidoro da Caravaggio with his peculiar style.
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