Madonna with Child and Saints
| Reference: | S37764 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista de’ CAVALIERI |
| Year: | 1560 ca. |
| Measures: | 225 x 300 mm |
€2,000.00
| Reference: | S37764 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista de’ CAVALIERI |
| Year: | 1560 ca. |
| Measures: | 225 x 300 mm |
€2,000.00
Description
Engraving, 1560 circa, signed on lower left plate. After a subject by Parmigianino.
Magnificent work, printed on contemporary laid paper with “anchor in the circle” watermark, trimmed to platemark, paper fold on lower part, otherwise in good condition.
The work derives from a drawing by Mazzola, copied also by Nicolò Rossigliani in a chiaroscuro.
Cavalieri began to work in Venice as engraver, in the workshop of Bartelli; he moved to Rome in 1599, where to work first for Salamanca and Lafrery, and afterwards in his own typography. The present work bears the address of Ferrando Bertelli, who worked in Venice between 1561 and 1571. Since Bertelli is known to have worked also in Rome, where he exchanged some plates with Lafrery, it might be that this work has been engraved in Venice and printed in Rome.
Very rare.
Literature
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Scorsetti 49.
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Giovanni Battista de’ CAVALIERI (1525-1601)
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Engraver,printer and print publisher,from Villa Lagarina near Trento.Active in Venice and from 1559 in Rome.1577 he had a bottega in Parione which he let out to a cartolaio,Girolamo Agnelli. His own house was in the vicolo di Palazzo Savelli, with a workshop next to it. He was the brother-in-law of Lorenzo Vaccari.
Made plates for Antonio Salamanca, Lafrery and Faleti.By 1560 he seems to have been publishing his own plates. He entered into partnerships for publishing: in 1567 with Perino Zecchini de Guarlottis and in 1576 with Lorenzo Vaccari .In 1577 he was employng a printer: Francesco Cornuti .He acquired old plates that he recut. He published plates by his contemporaries,including Cort.He himself engraved after works of many artists,including Cort.He himself engraved after works of many artists,including Francesco Salviati,Daniele da Volterra, Raphael, Michelangelo, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Livio Agresti and Baccio Bandinelli.He also made copies of earlier prints.His subject matter included the devotional topographical,antiquarian,didactic and ‘popular’.
He published a number of important series: the Pontificum Romanorum Effigies of 1580 and the Romanorum Imperatorum Effigies of 1583; the Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophea of 1584; the Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae, the first book of which was first published before 1561/2.
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Literature
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Scorsetti 49.
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Giovanni Battista de’ CAVALIERI (1525-1601)
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Engraver,printer and print publisher,from Villa Lagarina near Trento.Active in Venice and from 1559 in Rome.1577 he had a bottega in Parione which he let out to a cartolaio,Girolamo Agnelli. His own house was in the vicolo di Palazzo Savelli, with a workshop next to it. He was the brother-in-law of Lorenzo Vaccari.
Made plates for Antonio Salamanca, Lafrery and Faleti.By 1560 he seems to have been publishing his own plates. He entered into partnerships for publishing: in 1567 with Perino Zecchini de Guarlottis and in 1576 with Lorenzo Vaccari .In 1577 he was employng a printer: Francesco Cornuti .He acquired old plates that he recut. He published plates by his contemporaries,including Cort.He himself engraved after works of many artists,including Cort.He himself engraved after works of many artists,including Francesco Salviati,Daniele da Volterra, Raphael, Michelangelo, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Livio Agresti and Baccio Bandinelli.He also made copies of earlier prints.His subject matter included the devotional topographical,antiquarian,didactic and ‘popular’.
He published a number of important series: the Pontificum Romanorum Effigies of 1580 and the Romanorum Imperatorum Effigies of 1583; the Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophea of 1584; the Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae, the first book of which was first published before 1561/2.
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