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Currently not on display

Giorgio Ghisi

Mantova, 1520 - Mantova, 1582

Venus and Adonis

Date 1557 after
Materials and Techniques engraving
Size(cm) 32.1 x 22.6
State 2nd state
Standard ref. Bartsch 42 (ii/vii)
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2003-0014

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2003.

Exhibition History

2017
[Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, Akita Museum of Modern Art, 15 July-18 September, cat. no. 54

Bibliography

1977
Ferrara, Stefano; Bellini, Paolo; D'Amico, Rosa. Incisori liguri e lombardi dal XV al XVIII secolo. Bologna, Editrice Compositori Bologna, 1977, no. 133
1980
Massari, Stefania. Incisori mantovani del '500: Giovan Battista, Adamo, Diana Scultori e Giorgio Ghisi dalle collezioni del Gabinetto Nationale delle Stampe e della Calcografia Nationale. Roma, De Luca, 1980, p. 142, no. 204
1985
The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi (exh. cat.). Lewis, Michal; Lewis, R. E., eds. Saint Louis Art Museum, 16 April - 26 May 1985; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 18 June - 1 September 1985; Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, 24 September - 10 November 1985. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985 , no. 42
1989
"Massari, Stefania; Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Simonetta. Tra mito e allegoria: immagini a stampe nel '500 e '600. Roma, 1989, no. 114
1998
L' opera incisa di Giorgio Ghisi (exh. cat.). Bellini, Paolo, ed. Palazzo Agostinelli, Bassano del Grappa, 8 May - 26 July 1998. Bassano del Grappa, Tassotti, 1998, cat. no. 31
2005
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 38 (Apr. 2003-Mar. 2004), 2005, List of New Acquisitions. p. 45.
2017
Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017 (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 85, 140, cat. no. 54, col. repr.

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