Updated 14 April 2023
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
St, John the Baptist
Date | ca. 1505 |
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Materials and Techniques | engraving |
Size(cm) | 31.2 x 24.0 |
Inscriptions | signed upper left; IVLIVS CAMPAGNOLA/ F |
Standard ref. | Bartsch 1811, No.3; Hind 1910, No.2(repr.); Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944; Hind 1948, etc. |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1984-0095 |
This engraving by an important 16th century Italian printmaker, Giulio Campagnola, portrays John the Baptist standing in front of a pastoral landscape. His left hand is holding a bowl for pouring the holy water and his right hand is tucking up the hem of his outfit so that the overall pose forms an elegant contrapposto. The background is composed of Giorgionesque motifs such as shrubbery, a stump, shepherds and sheep, and houses, which are depicted passionately in stippling. The Mantegnesque elements Campagnola learnt early on in his career and the Giorgionesque style he acquired after he moved to Venice coexist in the form of portraiture and landscape. (Source: The Digital Gallery. 1999-2006)
Provenance
A. Ronald Collection; R. M. Light, Santa Barbara; Purchased by the NMWA, 1984.
Exhibition History
- 1997
- Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April 1997 - 18 May 1997, cat. no. 44
- 2007
- Italian Renaissance Prints from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 6 March 2007 - 6 May 2007, cat. no. 50
- 2009
- Iconomorphosis: Selected Graphics from the NMWA Collection, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 July 2009 - 16 August 2009, cat. no. 56
- 2011
- The Locus of Art: Aesthetics of Seiro Mayekawa from Dürer to Tsune Nakamura, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 3 September 2011 - 10 October 2011, cat. no. 60, repr.
- 2017
- Titian and the Renaissance in Venice: 150th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and Italy, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 21 January 2017 - 2 April 2017, cat. no. P-3, col. repr.
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- 1979
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- 1999
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- 2001
- Rearick, W. R. Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento. Milan, 2001, p.34.
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- Andrea Mantegna e l'incisione italiana del Rinascimento nelle collezioni dei Musei civici di Pavia. (exh. cat.). Lomartire, S. ed. Pavia, 2003, pp. 61, 103-104, no. 36.
- 2003
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- 2011
- The Locus of Art: Aesthetics of Seiro Mayekawa from Dürer to Tsune Nakamura(exh. cat.). [Nagaoka], Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 2011, cat. no. 60, repr.
- 2016
- Titian and the renaissance in Venice: 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Italy (exh. cat.). Villa, Giovanni Carlo Federico; Kobayashi Akiko, eds. [Tokyo], NHK, 2016, pp. 154-155, 216, cat. no. P-3, col. repr.