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Ercole Farnese
| Reference: | S47039 |
| Author | Giorgio GHISI detto "Il Mantovano" |
| Year: | 1578 ca. |
| Measures: | 180 x 330 mm |
€900.00
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| Reference: | S47039 |
| Author | Giorgio GHISI detto "Il Mantovano" |
| Year: | 1578 ca. |
| Measures: | 180 x 330 mm |
€900.00
Description
Engraving, circa 1578, Lettered at bottom left in a tablet 'GMF'. Example of the second state of three with the imprint of Nicolas van Aelst added at lower right.
After the sculpture known as the Farnese Hercules in the Museo Nazionale, Naples. The print is thought to have been commissioned by the heirs of Lafreri in Rome, as a replacement of the print of the same subject by Jacob Bos from the 1560s, often collected in the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae.
Modern scholars believe that the Hercules is an enlarged version, made by Glycone for the Baths of Caracalla in the early 3rd century CE, of a statue of the same hero produced by Lysippus and his school. In fact, the statue was found at the Baths of Caracalla in 1546 under the pontificate of Paul III (1534-1549), it was placed together with the other statue of Hercules on the back side of Palazzo Farnese where the two sculptures “symbolized strength sustained by virtue. The sculpture was found without the lower limbs, which were integrated by Guglielmo della Porta. The original limbs were found in 1560 but were not reintegrated until the eighteenth century when the statue was moved from Rome to Naples at the behest of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon. To please the various European courts, numerous copies were made of the statue: in marble, in bronze, in gilded bronze, in terracotta, from time to time made on a larger or smaller scale than the real thing.
A good impression, printed on laid paper, with margins, in good condition.
Bibliografia
C. Hülsen, 1921, 55eB & 55fC; Lewis, The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi, Ex Cat. New York, 1985, pp. 188-191, II/III; Bartsch, Le Peintre graveur XV.401.41; Bellini 1998, L'Opera incisa di Giorgio Ghisi , 59.
Giorgio GHISI detto "Il Mantovano" (Mantova 1520 - 1582)
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Giorgio Ghisi or Chizi, or Ghizi, aka Mantovano, was born in Mantua in a family from Parma who lived in Mantua between 1515 and 1525. He died in the same city in 1582.
Giorgio was paiter, carver, “operatore all’azzimina” (he worked with jewels) and engraver. His first print bears the date 1543, although it is possible that he had already started his career as engraver even before, in the school of Giovanni Battista Scultori (1503 – 1575) and working with Giulio Romano who came to Mantua in 1524 to decorate Palazzo del Tè. Giorgio left Mantua after Giulio’s death, in 1546, and he went to Rome to meet his fellow citizen Pietro Faccetti, during the pontificate of Paul III (1534 – 1549).
At the age of thirty, between 1549 and 1550, Ghisi left Italy and went to Antwerp, the most important cultural city in Europe, for he had been invited by the publisher Hieronymus Cock.
From Antwerp he moved to Paris and there he published prints form Luca Penni and Giulio Romano bearing the King’s Privilege. He remained in Paris until 1560 approximately.
In 1578 he must have engraved his last plates; we know that from that point and till his death, he worked for Vincenzo Gonzaga as jewel designer.
Bartsch and Passavant had catalogued about 70 prints, while Hubert registered just 31; D’Arco lists 44 subjects and the Lewis’ 63.
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Giorgio GHISI detto "Il Mantovano" (Mantova 1520 - 1582)
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Giorgio Ghisi or Chizi, or Ghizi, aka Mantovano, was born in Mantua in a family from Parma who lived in Mantua between 1515 and 1525. He died in the same city in 1582.
Giorgio was paiter, carver, “operatore all’azzimina” (he worked with jewels) and engraver. His first print bears the date 1543, although it is possible that he had already started his career as engraver even before, in the school of Giovanni Battista Scultori (1503 – 1575) and working with Giulio Romano who came to Mantua in 1524 to decorate Palazzo del Tè. Giorgio left Mantua after Giulio’s death, in 1546, and he went to Rome to meet his fellow citizen Pietro Faccetti, during the pontificate of Paul III (1534 – 1549).
At the age of thirty, between 1549 and 1550, Ghisi left Italy and went to Antwerp, the most important cultural city in Europe, for he had been invited by the publisher Hieronymus Cock.
From Antwerp he moved to Paris and there he published prints form Luca Penni and Giulio Romano bearing the King’s Privilege. He remained in Paris until 1560 approximately.
In 1578 he must have engraved his last plates; we know that from that point and till his death, he worked for Vincenzo Gonzaga as jewel designer.
Bartsch and Passavant had catalogued about 70 prints, while Hubert registered just 31; D’Arco lists 44 subjects and the Lewis’ 63.
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