Rest from the Flight into Egypt
| Reference: | S28306 |
| Author | Francesco VILLAMENA |
| Year: | 1597 |
| Measures: | 145 x 205 mm |
€500.00
| Reference: | S28306 |
| Author | Francesco VILLAMENA |
| Year: | 1597 |
| Measures: | 145 x 205 mm |
€500.00
Description
Engraving, 1597, signed and dated in plate, at the bottom plate, at the end of dedication to Cesare Crispolti (1563 - 1608). Perillustri RdDD Cesari Crispoldo Perusino Hec olim egregie fuit diliniata a Muciano ob ejus Mortem nunc pene deperdita Franciscus Villamena sculpsit DD / 1597
Lettered lower left: Cum Privilegio Summi Pontificis lower right: Superiorum Permissu Romae
From a drawing by Girolamo Muziano.
Villamena dedicates the engraving to Cesare Crispolti from Perugia, noting that the composition was drawn by Girolamo Muziano and that, following the painter's death in 1592, it was engraved by him.
Villamena was a painter, draftsman, and engraver, born in Assisi around 1566. He settled in Rome around 1590 and became a pupil of Cornelis Cort, later remaining in the stylistic orbit of Agostino Carracci. In the following years, he carried out an intense engraving activity, of which numerous essays have survived, revealing Villamena as a “virtuoso” with the burin, a highly skilled technician, mastering all the possibilities of line and intersection, employing a clean, vigorous, and often rather crude style.
Magnificent proof, high-contrast, printed on contemporary laid paper with watermark 'hand', trimmed with copper, restoration lower right corner perfectly executed, otherwise in good condition.
Bibliografia
Charles Le Blanc Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes: contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations. 4 vols., Paris, 1854-1888, Vol. IV, cat. no. 18, p. 124; Kühn-Hattenhauer, Das graphische Oeuvre von Francesco Villamena, p. 195; Bury, The Print in Italy, pp.17/18.
Francesco VILLAMENA (Assisi, 1564 - Roma, 7 Luglio 1624)
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Italian engraver. According to tradition, he was a pupil of Cornelis Cort, whose engravings he copied, and was associated in his youth with Agostino Carracci. He made few original engravings but reproduced designs of artists including Raphael, Paolo Veronese, Federico Barocci, Girolamo Muziano and Giulio Romano. His output also included frontispieces and book illustrations. Closely related to such northern late adherents of Mannerism as Hendrick Goltzius and Jacques Bellange, he employed an elegant and expressive calligraphic style with perfect control of the burin. In addition to religious and historical subjects, he executed portraits, notably a series of genre figures (Rome, Gab. N. Stampe). In 1594 he executed a series of engravings illustrating scenes from the Life of St Francis. His oeuvre comprised at least one hundred plates.
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Francesco VILLAMENA (Assisi, 1564 - Roma, 7 Luglio 1624)
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Italian engraver. According to tradition, he was a pupil of Cornelis Cort, whose engravings he copied, and was associated in his youth with Agostino Carracci. He made few original engravings but reproduced designs of artists including Raphael, Paolo Veronese, Federico Barocci, Girolamo Muziano and Giulio Romano. His output also included frontispieces and book illustrations. Closely related to such northern late adherents of Mannerism as Hendrick Goltzius and Jacques Bellange, he employed an elegant and expressive calligraphic style with perfect control of the burin. In addition to religious and historical subjects, he executed portraits, notably a series of genre figures (Rome, Gab. N. Stampe). In 1594 he executed a series of engravings illustrating scenes from the Life of St Francis. His oeuvre comprised at least one hundred plates.
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