The Resurrection
| Reference: | S37779 |
| Author | Diana SCULTORI |
| Year: | 1540 ca. |
| Measures: | 171 x 238 mm |
€1,250.00
| Reference: | S37779 |
| Author | Diana SCULTORI |
| Year: | 1540 ca. |
| Measures: | 171 x 238 mm |
€1,250.00
Description
Engraving, 1535 – 40 circa, inscribed lower right: Iulius Mantuanus inv.
Good example, printed on contemporary laid paper, with unreadeable watermark, laid down on old paper, light browning, some traces of paper fold, generally in good condition.
The engraving, whose authenticity is questioned by Mariette and Bellini, is commonly considered a copy in reverse of the Resurrection by Giovanni Battista Scultori. However, as Massari observes, the graphic style and the differences between the two incisions excludes this derivation.
The composition is to be related to the design by Giulio Romano from the Ellesmere collection, now in Berlin (Staatliche Museum, Z 26368). In particular, close analogies are found in the position of the soldier who covers his head with his hand and the soldier with the shield. The drawing is dated, on stylistic considerations, between 1530-31.
There is also another drawing of the same subject executed by Giulio, in connection with the Arazzi of the Scuola Nuova which shows in the figures of the soldiers some stylistic analogies with the same figures of the engraving in question (Louvre, Cabinrt des Dessins, inv. 3468).
Literature
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Bartsch XV.437.10; Bellini, p. 269, n. 68; Mariette, p. 370 n. 17; Massari, Giulio Romano…, p. 164 n. 156.
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Diana SCULTORI (Mantova ante 1530- Roma 1588)
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Diana Scultori, also known as Mantovana or erroneously Ghisi, was daughter of Giovan Battista and sister of Adamo. She was born in Mantua before 1530. In Mantua, she got married to Francesco, an architect from Volterra, whom she met after 1566, when Cesare Gonzaga had hired him to decorate his studio for the medals (which he embellished with ebony and ivory). After her marriage, Diana started signing her works as Diana Mantuana, civis Volterrana incidebat, to underline the fact that she had become citizen of that renowned city.
She lived and worked in Rome from 1575, signing her works as “civis volterrana”. Here she died in 1588.
In Rome she engraved drawings of Raphael and other Roman Mannerists.
Bartsch ascribes to her 47 prints, Passavant 59.
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Literature
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Bartsch XV.437.10; Bellini, p. 269, n. 68; Mariette, p. 370 n. 17; Massari, Giulio Romano…, p. 164 n. 156.
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Diana SCULTORI (Mantova ante 1530- Roma 1588)
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Diana Scultori, also known as Mantovana or erroneously Ghisi, was daughter of Giovan Battista and sister of Adamo. She was born in Mantua before 1530. In Mantua, she got married to Francesco, an architect from Volterra, whom she met after 1566, when Cesare Gonzaga had hired him to decorate his studio for the medals (which he embellished with ebony and ivory). After her marriage, Diana started signing her works as Diana Mantuana, civis Volterrana incidebat, to underline the fact that she had become citizen of that renowned city.
She lived and worked in Rome from 1575, signing her works as “civis volterrana”. Here she died in 1588.
In Rome she engraved drawings of Raphael and other Roman Mannerists.
Bartsch ascribes to her 47 prints, Passavant 59.
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