Apollo tying Marsias to a tree
| Reference: | S39825 |
| Author | Marco SAN MARTINO |
| Year: | 1640 ca. |
| Measures: | 150 x 191 mm |
€1,500.00
| Reference: | S39825 |
| Author | Marco SAN MARTINO |
| Year: | 1640 ca. |
| Measures: | 150 x 191 mm |
€1,500.00
Description
Etching, 1640 circa, signed lower right “Marcho sanMartino In: e Fecit”, lettered “G” al lower left corner. Only state.
Good example, printed on contemporary laid watermakerd paper (, white margins, occasional foxing, in very good condition.
Extremely rare work.
Literature
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TIB 47.23.017; Bartsch XXI.225.17; Le Blanc, III, p. 420, n. 17; Incisori napoletani del ‘600, p. 167 n. 159.
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Marco SAN MARTINO (Napoli 1615/25 - Venezia 1680/1700)
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Italian painter and printmaker (1615/25 probably Naples – 1680/1700 Venice). He remains a little-known painter, but his vivid and spontaneous etchings are highly personal and innovative. After a period in Bologna he went to Venice where he became known as a painter of small landscapes with figures (untraced). These were praised for their realism and effects of light. His few known religious works include St Silvester Baptizing Constantine (Rimini, Mus. Com.) from the church of S Colomba in Rimini and St Vincent Preaching in the Desert (Venice, S Vincenzo). His small etchings, of mythological and sacred subjects, show the realism admired in his landscapes. His effective contrasts between dark foreground figures and light distances, with rocks, cottages and clumps of trees, derive from a tradition that runs from Antonio Tempesta to Filippo Napoletano.
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Literature
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TIB 47.23.017; Bartsch XXI.225.17; Le Blanc, III, p. 420, n. 17; Incisori napoletani del ‘600, p. 167 n. 159.
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Marco SAN MARTINO (Napoli 1615/25 - Venezia 1680/1700)
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Italian painter and printmaker (1615/25 probably Naples – 1680/1700 Venice). He remains a little-known painter, but his vivid and spontaneous etchings are highly personal and innovative. After a period in Bologna he went to Venice where he became known as a painter of small landscapes with figures (untraced). These were praised for their realism and effects of light. His few known religious works include St Silvester Baptizing Constantine (Rimini, Mus. Com.) from the church of S Colomba in Rimini and St Vincent Preaching in the Desert (Venice, S Vincenzo). His small etchings, of mythological and sacred subjects, show the realism admired in his landscapes. His effective contrasts between dark foreground figures and light distances, with rocks, cottages and clumps of trees, derive from a tradition that runs from Antonio Tempesta to Filippo Napoletano.
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