Angelica and Medoro
| Reference: | S28066 |
| Author | Aegidius II SADELER |
| Year: | 1595 ca. |
| Measures: | 422 x 318 mm |
€1,300.00
| Reference: | S28066 |
| Author | Aegidius II SADELER |
| Year: | 1595 ca. |
| Measures: | 422 x 318 mm |
€1,300.00
Description
Engraving, 1595 circa, inscribed in plate within image lower right: "Carlo Caliari pin: / G: Sadeler Scalp:"; along lower margin, the dedicatotion to Guido Coppani and four verses in two lines.
After Carlo Caliari.
Example with the address of Donato Rascicotti, the only one described by Hollstein. A beautiful impression, printed on contemporary laid paper with watermark "shield with letter M and star", trimmed to the platemark in excellent condition.
The work relates to the period of Venetian Sadeler elapsed between Verona and Venice, so it is dated between 1594 and 1597. The subject is taken from the painting by Carlo Caliari, called Carletto, youngest son of Paolo Caliari, better known by the nickname of "Veronese". The painting, in the best style of his father, is dated to about 1584 and is preserved in a private collection in Padua. The composition of Sadeler differs slightly from the picture, and it is made in the classic style of the Flemish artist, with the inclusion of the landscape in the background, a typically Nordic. The theme of Angelica and Medoro is a scene very popular in the late Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting. Medoro, a follower of the Saracen leader Dardinello, is wounded in battle and Angelica to his aid when Jesus healed with grass juice, then falling in love with him. The scene depicted is both intent to record your name in the bark of a tree.
Very good copy of this rare engraving.
Literature
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Hollstein 103; Wurzbach 77.
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Aegidius II SADELER (Anversa, 1570 circa - Praga, 1629)
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Aegidius Sadeler or Aegidius Sadeler II (1570–1629) was a Flemish engraver who was principally active at the Prague court of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor and his successors. Sadeler was born in Antwerp in the Sadeler family of print dealers and engravers. He was the son of Emmanuel de Sayeleer and the nephew of Aegidius I, Jan I en Raphael Sadeler. He was trained by his uncle Jan I and became a member of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1589. He was active in Munich the next year in 1590, in Rome in 1593, in Naples and then again in Munich in 1594–1597. From 1597 he settled in Prague where he became court engraver for Rudolf II and made engraved portraits of notables and engravings after artworks there, most notably paintings by Bartholomeus Spranger, Roelant Savery, Hans von Aachen, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and sculptures by Giambologna and Adriaen de Vries. His early engravings were mostly faithful copies of works by Albrecht Dürer in the Imperial collection and copies of paintings by notable Italian painters such as Raphael, Tintoretto, Parmigianino, Barocci and Titian or by Northern painters who worked there, such as Paul Bril and Denys Calvaert. In Prague he also engraved portraits of the notables of Rudolf's court, and collaborated with Spranger, Joseph Heintz the Elder, Jacobus Typotius and his friend Anselmus Boece de Boodt (1550-1632), Rudolf II's gemologist and physician. After Rudolf II died he enjoyed the favour and protection of the two succeeding Emperors, Matthias and Ferdinand II. According to Michael Bryan, "He used the graver with a commanding facility, sometimes finishing his plates with surprising neatness, when the subject required it; at other times his burin is broad and bold. His plates are very numerous, representing historical subjects, portraits, landscapes, &c. some of them from his own designs, many of which are much esteemed, particularly his portraits, which are executed in an admirable style. Sadeler died in Prague in 1629. He had many pupils, including Wenzel Hollar and Joachim von Sandrart, who wrote his biography.
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Literature
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Hollstein 103; Wurzbach 77.
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Aegidius II SADELER (Anversa, 1570 circa - Praga, 1629)
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Aegidius Sadeler or Aegidius Sadeler II (1570–1629) was a Flemish engraver who was principally active at the Prague court of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor and his successors. Sadeler was born in Antwerp in the Sadeler family of print dealers and engravers. He was the son of Emmanuel de Sayeleer and the nephew of Aegidius I, Jan I en Raphael Sadeler. He was trained by his uncle Jan I and became a member of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1589. He was active in Munich the next year in 1590, in Rome in 1593, in Naples and then again in Munich in 1594–1597. From 1597 he settled in Prague where he became court engraver for Rudolf II and made engraved portraits of notables and engravings after artworks there, most notably paintings by Bartholomeus Spranger, Roelant Savery, Hans von Aachen, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and sculptures by Giambologna and Adriaen de Vries. His early engravings were mostly faithful copies of works by Albrecht Dürer in the Imperial collection and copies of paintings by notable Italian painters such as Raphael, Tintoretto, Parmigianino, Barocci and Titian or by Northern painters who worked there, such as Paul Bril and Denys Calvaert. In Prague he also engraved portraits of the notables of Rudolf's court, and collaborated with Spranger, Joseph Heintz the Elder, Jacobus Typotius and his friend Anselmus Boece de Boodt (1550-1632), Rudolf II's gemologist and physician. After Rudolf II died he enjoyed the favour and protection of the two succeeding Emperors, Matthias and Ferdinand II. According to Michael Bryan, "He used the graver with a commanding facility, sometimes finishing his plates with surprising neatness, when the subject required it; at other times his burin is broad and bold. His plates are very numerous, representing historical subjects, portraits, landscapes, &c. some of them from his own designs, many of which are much esteemed, particularly his portraits, which are executed in an admirable style. Sadeler died in Prague in 1629. He had many pupils, including Wenzel Hollar and Joachim von Sandrart, who wrote his biography.
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