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Currently not on display

Giulio Campagnola

Padua, c. 1482 - Venice, 1515/18

St, John the Baptist

Date ca. 1505
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
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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1811
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1816
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1824
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1835
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1837
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1862
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1930
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1936
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1948
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1953
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1966
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1970
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1970
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1974
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1975
Stampe Italiane dalle origini all'Ottocento (exh. cat.). Petrioli Tofani, A. M. ed. Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, June - September 1975. Florence, 1975, p. 43, no. 46, ill. 29.
1976
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1977
W. R. Rearick. "Maestri veneti del Cinquecento: Giorgione, Titian, Campagnola, Sebastiano del Piombo, Lotto, Palma Vecchio, Bordone, Cariani, Pordenone, Girolamo da Treviso, etc.". Biblioteca di disegni. vol. 5, 1977, no. 6, pp. 8-9, 16, 24.
1977
Rearick, W. R. "Titian's Drawings, 1510-1512". Tiziano nel quarto centenario della sua morte 1576-1976. Venice, 1977, p. 174, note. 3.
1978
Muraro, M. "Grafica tizianesca". Tiziano e il Manierismo europeo. R. Pallucchini ed. Florence, 1978, pp. 137-38, note. 6.
1979
Oberhuber, K. Giorgione: atti del Convegno internazionale di studio per il quinto centenario della nascita. 29 - 31 May 1978. Castelfranco, 1979, pp. 317, 320, note. 27.
1979
Pignatti, T.; Chiari, M. A. Tiziano: disegni. Florence, 1979, p. 7, no. II.
1980
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1981
Sechs Jahrhunderte europäischer Druckgraphik: Meisterwerke aus dem Besitz der Albertina in Wien. The National Museum of Western Art, 7 February - 22 March 1981. The National Museum of Western Art, 1981, no. 29.
1982
Saccomani, E. Domenicho Campagnola disegnatore di "paesi" degli esordi alla prima maturità. Arte veneta: rivista di storia dell'arte. vol. 36, 1982, pp. 84, 95, note. 22.
1982
Chiari, M. A. Incisioni da Tiziano: catalogo del fondo grafico a stampa del Museo Correr. (exh. cat.). Venice, 1982, p. 5.
1983
The Genius of Venice 1500-1600. (exh. cat.), Martineau, J.; Hope, C. ed. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 25 November 1983 - 11 March 1984. London, 1983, pp. 314-15, no. P10.
1984
Zucker, Mark J. The Illustrated Bartsch vol. 25 (Commentary): Early Italian Masters. New York, 1984, pp. 470-471, 2518.005.
1985
Emison, P. A. Invention and the Italian Renaissance Print: Mantegna to Parmigianino. Ph. D., Columbia University, 1985, pp. 90-98.
1987
Wethey, H. E. Titian and his Drawings: with Reference to Giorgione and Some Close Contemporaries. Princeton (N.J.), 1987, pp. 192-194, no. A-27.
1988
Chiari Moretto Wiel, M. A. Per un catalogo ragionato dei disegni di Tiziano. Saggi e memorie di storia dell'Arte. no. 16, 1988, pp. 67-68, no. A10.
1988
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 19 (1984), 1988, Koshikawa, Michiaki. New Acquisitions 1984. pp. 22-25, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions 1984. pp. 92-94, repr.
1988
Chiari Moretto Wiel, M. A. Per una nuova cronologia di Giulio Campagnola incisore. Arte veneta. no. 42, 1988, pp. 41-44, 46-47, 50, 53, note. 6.
1989
Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1989 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), cat. no. 116.
1991
Rearick, W. R. Titian Drawings: A Progress Report. Artibus et Historiae. vol. 12, No. 23, 1991, pp. 14, 36, note. 33.
1993
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1995
Tiziano: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano. (exh. cat.). Bernardini, M. G. ed. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1995, pp. 295-297, no. 77.
1999
Lambert, G. Les premières gravures italiennes Quattrocento-début du Cinquecento: Inventaire de la collection du Département des Estampes et de la Photographie [Bibliothèque nationale de France]. Paris, 1999, pp. 381-382, no. 706.
2001
Rearick, W. R. Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento. Milan, 2001, p.34.
2003
van der Sman, G. J. Le Siècle de Titien: gravures vénitiennes de la Renaissance. (exh. cat.). Bonnefantenmuseum à Maastricht, 17 November2002 - 16February 2003; Musée Groeninge; Hôtel Arents à Bruges, 1 March - 26 May 2003. Bruges, 2003, p. 66, no. II. 1.
2003
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.
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.

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