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Bartolomeo Coriolano

Bologna, 1599 - Rome, c. 1676

Guido Reni

Bologna, 1575 - Bologna, 1642

The Fall of the Giants (after Guido Reni)

Date 1647
Materials and Techniques Ciaroscuro Woodcut
Size(cm) 43.5 x 61.0 (image); 47.0 x 64.5 (paper)
Standard ref. Bartsch XII, 114-16, 12
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2006-0007

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2007.

Exhibition History

2021
National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y2_34 | T2_37

Bibliography

1837
Zanetti, Alessandro. Le premier siècle de la calcographie ou catalogue raisonné des estampes du cabinet de feu M. le Comte Léopold Cicognara, avec une appendice sur les nielles du même cabinet. Venice, 1837, pp. 60-61, nos. 70-72.
1841
Malvasia, Carlo Cesare. Felsina Pittrice. Vite de' pittori bolognesi. Con aggiunti e note inedite del medesimo autore di Giampietro Zanotti e di altri scrittori viventi. Bologna, 1841 (1st. ed. 1678), vol. 1, pp. 94-95, vol. 2, pp. 42, 64.
1930
Servolini, Luigi. La xilografia a chiaroscuro italiana: nei secoli XVI, XVII e XVIII. Lecco, 1930, pp. 121-122.
1965
Clairs-obscurs: gravures sur bois imprimées en couleurs de 1500 a 1800 provenant de collections hollandaises (exh. cat.). Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 25 October - 5 December 1965; Musée Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 17 December 1965 - 6 February 1966. Paris, Les Presses Artistiques, [1965], no. 114
1977
Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. An Introduction to the Woodcut of the Seventeenth Century. New York, Abaris Books, 1977, p. 166.
1984
Pepper, D. Stephen. Guido Reni: A Complete Catalogue of His Works with an Introductory Text. Oxford, 1984, p. 275, no. 163
1988
McBurney, Henrietta; Turner, Nicholas. Drawings by Guido Reni for Woodcuts by Bartolomeo Coriolano. Print Quarterly. vol. 5, no. 3, 1988, pp. 232-238.
2001
Chiaroscuro: italienische Farbholzschnitte der Renaissance und des Barock (exh. cat.). Graf, Dieter; Mildenberger, Hermann, eds. Casa di Goethe, Rome, 25 April - 23 July 2001; Kunstsammlngen zu Weimar, 19 August - 21 October 2001; Haus der Kunst, München, 17 Octber 2002 - 12 January 2003. Berlin, G + H, 2001, cat. no. 60.
2003
Italienische Holzschnitte der Renaissance und des Barock (exh. cat.). Matile, Michael, ed. Graphische Sammlung der ETH, Zürich, 3 - 23 December 2003 and 5 January - 13 February 2004. Basel, Schwabe, 2003, no. 85
2003
Von Cranach bis Baselitz: Meisterwerke des Clairobscur-Holtzschnitts (exh. cat.). Kemmer, Claus, et al, ed. Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, 2003, p. 43.
2005
Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from the Frits Lugt Collection in Paris (exh. cat.). 8 October - 11 December 2005. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Museum, Tokyo, 2005, cat. no. 76-b, pp.171-172.
2008
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 41 (Apr. 2006-Mar. 2007), 2008, List of New Acquisitions. p. 46.
2021
When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 78, 179, cat. no. Y2_34 | T2_37, col. repr.

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