An interior in candlelight with male figures drawing; sculptures, books, skulls and a human skeleton arranged on a shelf and on the floor. Engraving by E. Vico after B. Bandinelli.
- Bandinelli, Baccio, 1493-1560.
- Date:
- [between 1560 and 1569?]
- Reference:
- 32727i
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The man on the right hand side with the Order of St. James is a self-portrait of Baccio Bandinelli
Publication/Creation
Romae : Petrus Paulus Palumbus Formis : Gaspar Albertus successor Palumbi, [between 1560 and 1569?]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; image 30.3 x 47.4 cm
Lettering
Baccius Bandinellus invent ; Enea Vigo parmegiano sculpsit.
Edition
State III of 3 (Bartsch's state II).
References note
Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Leipzig, 1854-1870, vol. XV, p. 171, no. 49
N. Pevsner, Academies of art past and present, New York, 1973, pp. 40-42
Il primato del disegno in Firenze e la Toscana dei Medici nell' Europa del cinquecento, exhib. cat., Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1980, nos. 687, 688
The draughtsman's eye, late Italian Renaissance schools and styles, exhib cat., edited by E. Olszewski with J. Glaubiger, 1981, no. 74
D. Landau and P. Parshall, The Renaissance print 1470-1550, New Haven/ London, 1994, p. 286
Ben Thomas, 'The academy of Baccio Bandinelli', Print quarterly, 2005, 22: 3-14 (p. 9, fig. 6)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 32727i
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