Arrest of Jesus in Gethsemane
| Reference: | S32161 |
| Author | Donato BERTELLI |
| Year: | 1565 ca. |
| Measures: | 302 x 410 mm |
€1,500.00
| Reference: | S32161 |
| Author | Donato BERTELLI |
| Year: | 1565 ca. |
| Measures: | 302 x 410 mm |
€1,500.00
Description
Etching and engraving, ca. 1565/70, signed in plate in lower center with editorial imprint: IN VENETIA ALLA LIBRARIA DEL S. MARCO D.B.
Magnificent proof, richly toned, impressed on contemporary laid paper with "lily within a circle" watermark (paper used in Venice between 1570 and 1580), irregularly trimmed to copperplate, in excellent condition.
The monogram D. B. and the address of the Libreria di San Marco identify Donato Bertelli as the publisher of this very rare engraving, unknown to all repertories and not found in any of the major museum collections. It is unclear whether Bertelli is also the engraver of the plate.
Donato Bertelli was printer, publisher and map & print dealer in Venice Merzaria, "all'insegna di S. Marco". Certainly known in Padua, since it is signed "Donatus Bertellius Patavinus", in 1558 signed himself "Donato de Piero", hereinafter more commonly "Donato Bertelli Libraro". The limits of the Bertelli, commonly set between 1563 and 1574, can be expanded on the basis of the papers he published, in 1558 to 1592. In 1559 attended the workshop of Ferdinando Bertelli, are not clear with whom the ties of kinship, from whom he inherited the branches substituting his name, and on April 1, 1571 was written to serial printers Art.
Literature
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cfr. Bury, The Print in Italy, p. 221.
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Donato BERTELLI (Attivo a Venezia seconda metà del XVI secolo)
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Bertelli family represents the largest group of publishers, engravers, cartographers and merchants of prints of the sixteenth century. Ferrando Bertelli was the most productive, active between 1570, the 1560th, but maps of the last quarter of the century are known by the names of Andrea, Donato, Lucca, Nicholas and Peter. This was mainly active in Padua, where he led a workshop in letterpress and engravings. The earliest records show the asset at the date of 1589 as an engraver of several plates for an edition entitled Diversarum nationum habitus which was published in collaboration with Alciato Alciati. Pietro Bertelli had a library in Padua "the banner of the Angel". At his death the business was inherited by his son Francis. Donato Bertelli was printer, publisher and print dealer, was probably born in Padua, as is made clear by some of its branches ("Donatus Bertellius Patavinus") but active in Venice between 1563 and 1574, although it tends to expand its activities 1558 to 1592 on the basis of cartographic material marketed by him in those years. He worked in the workshop of Ferdinando Bertelli - with which it is not yet clear to the family relationship - from whom he inherited the branches etching, substituting his own name. As a publisher chalcographer emerged from his workshop papers invention or derivation Christmas Bonifacio, Giacomo Gastaldi, Ortelius etc.. In view of the large number of cards he initialed the Almagia him as "the principal heir and successor of the most active producers in the second half of the sixteenth century" in Venice. His successor "to the book publishing of St. Mark" was Andrea, who always used the old branches of Donato. Bibliography: Valerio, Cartographers Veneti, p. 149.
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Literature
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cfr. Bury, The Print in Italy, p. 221.
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Donato BERTELLI (Attivo a Venezia seconda metà del XVI secolo)
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Bertelli family represents the largest group of publishers, engravers, cartographers and merchants of prints of the sixteenth century. Ferrando Bertelli was the most productive, active between 1570, the 1560th, but maps of the last quarter of the century are known by the names of Andrea, Donato, Lucca, Nicholas and Peter. This was mainly active in Padua, where he led a workshop in letterpress and engravings. The earliest records show the asset at the date of 1589 as an engraver of several plates for an edition entitled Diversarum nationum habitus which was published in collaboration with Alciato Alciati. Pietro Bertelli had a library in Padua "the banner of the Angel". At his death the business was inherited by his son Francis. Donato Bertelli was printer, publisher and print dealer, was probably born in Padua, as is made clear by some of its branches ("Donatus Bertellius Patavinus") but active in Venice between 1563 and 1574, although it tends to expand its activities 1558 to 1592 on the basis of cartographic material marketed by him in those years. He worked in the workshop of Ferdinando Bertelli - with which it is not yet clear to the family relationship - from whom he inherited the branches etching, substituting his own name. As a publisher chalcographer emerged from his workshop papers invention or derivation Christmas Bonifacio, Giacomo Gastaldi, Ortelius etc.. In view of the large number of cards he initialed the Almagia him as "the principal heir and successor of the most active producers in the second half of the sixteenth century" in Venice. His successor "to the book publishing of St. Mark" was Andrea, who always used the old branches of Donato. Bibliography: Valerio, Cartographers Veneti, p. 149.
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