Triumph of Love
| Reference: | S36037 |
| Author | Giulio BONASONE |
| Year: | 1545 |
| Measures: | 402 x 283 mm |
€900.00
| Reference: | S36037 |
| Author | Giulio BONASONE |
| Year: | 1545 |
| Measures: | 402 x 283 mm |
€900.00
Description
Engraving, dated on plate, at right, 1545 and signed IV BONAHSO I VINTOR'.
Example of second state, of two, inscribed with publisher's address: 'TOM BARL EXC'.
Good copy, printe on contemporary laid paper with “schield with letter M and star” (Briquet, 5924), margins of 0,5 cm circa, very good condition.
Bartsch claimed it was Giulio Bonasone's own invention. Cirillo Archer in TIB suggests that the composition is indebted to Francesco Primaticcio.
Bonasone's preparatory drawing for this print, drawn in reverse and incised for transfer, is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. According to Bruce Davis the drawing reveals Emilian traditions, but the composition is close to Raphael or Giulio Romano. The engraver modified some details of his drawing on the plate.
Literature
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Bartsch XV.141.106; Le Blanc I.444.140; Massari, Giulio Bonasone, n. 47; Davis, Mannerist Print, 1988, no. 10; Cirillo Archer in TIB 1995, 2803.106.S2.
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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 XV.141.106; Le Blanc I.444.140; Massari, Giulio Bonasone, n. 47; Davis, Mannerist Print, 1988, no. 10; Cirillo Archer in TIB 1995, 2803.106.S2.
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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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