Niccolo’ Campani | The Lament of Strascino, frontispiece
da Brescia after Mantegna | Holy Family
BIBLIOGRAPHY Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving: A Critical Catalogue with Complete Reproduction of All the Prints Described. Vol 5. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1948. pp. 33-54. Print. Landau, David and Peter Parshall. The Renaissance Print: 1470 – 1550. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994 (Digitised on SOLO: not a huge amount on Giovanni Antonio, but enough to get an idea of his influence). Levinson, Jay A. Early Italian engravings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1973. pp. 235 – 264. (You can access the relevant pages by clicking here. Probably the best place to start).
Ugo da Carpi | Hero and Sibyl
BIBLIOGRAPHY Landau, David and Peter Parshall. The Renaissance Print: 1470 – 1550. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Especially chapter IV, “Titian, Parmigianino, and Rosso, and their Collaboration with Ugo da Carpi, Caraglio, and Antonio da Trento, pp. 146 – 154. Digitised on SOLO. Lincoln, Evelyn. The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. See Chapter 2 for the development of the chiaroscuro woodcut in Italy. Digitised on SOLO. Parshall, Peter. “Ugo da Carpi, Raphael and his Mistress and The Odyssey: A Reinterpretation.” Print Quarterly 26, no. 2 (2019): 160 – 162. To view, click here. Takahatake, Naoko. The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2018. Cat 18. ADDITIONAL READING Bialler, Nancy. Chiaroscuro Woodcuts: Hendrick Goltzius (1558 – 1617) and his Time. Ghent: Snoeck-Fucaju & Zoon: The first chapter is a brief introduction to the international chiaroscuro woodcut, and considers the works of Ugo alongside northern counterparts. To view, click here.
Marcantonio after Dürer | The Birth of the Virgin
BIBLIOGRAPHY Pon, Lisa. Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi: Copying and the Italian Renaissance Print. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Chapters 2 and. Digitised on SOLO. Wouk, Edward H. Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael and the image multiplied. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. Print. For a brief overview of Marcantonio’s life, click here.
Mantegna | Battle of the Sea Gods
BIBLIOGRAPHY Christiansen, Keith. The Genius of Andrea Mantegna. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. pp. 47 – 63. Digitised on the Metropolitan Museum Website. Landau, David and Peter Parshall. The Renaissance Print: 1470 – 1550. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Chapter III, “The Development of a Tonal System” and “The Market.” Digitised on SOLO. Lincoln, Evelyn. The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. See Chapter 2 for the development of the chiaroscuro woodcut in Italy. Digitised on SOLO. Oberhuber, Konrad. “Mantegna and the Role of Prints: A Prototype for Artistic Innovation in the North and the South.” In Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Titan and Durer. Edited by Bernard Aikema, Beverly Louis Brown. Milan: Biompiani, 1999. Click here to access. Simons, Patricia. “Mantegna’s Battle of the Sea Gods: the material and thematic interaction of print and sculpture.” In Prints in Translation, 1450 – 1750: Image, Materiality, Space. Edited by Suzanne Karr Schmidt and Edward H Wouk. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017: 89 – 113. Digitised on SOLO. FURTHER READING Boorsch, Suzanne and David Landau. “Mantegna and Prints.” The Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1089 (1993): 826 – 828. Response to Christiansen article below. Digitised on JSTOR. Christiansen, Keith. “The Case for Mantegna as Printmaker.” The Burlington Magazine 135, no. 1086 (1993): 604 – 612. Digitised on JSTOR. Emison, Patricia Anne. “Invention and the Italian Renaissance print, Mantegna to Parmigianino.” PhD Thesis: Columbia University, 1985. Chapter 1, “Andrea Mantegna as Print Engraver.” Digitised on SOLO. Fletcher, Shelly. “A Closer Look at Mantegna’s Prints.” Print Quarterly 18, no. 1 (2001): 3 – 41. Digitised on JSTOR. Flowler, Caroline O. ” ‘Res Papirea’: Mantegna’s Paper Things.” The Art Bulletin 99, no. 1 (2017): 8 – 35. Digitised on JSTOR.
Baldini | The Moon
BIBLIOGRAPHY Cropper, Elizabeth. Florentine drawing at the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent: papers from a colloquium held at the Villa Spelman, Florence. Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1992. pp. 181 – 196. Print. Levinson, Jay A. Early Italian engravings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1973. (To access the relevant pages, click here. Probably the best place to start). Phillips, John Goldsmith. Early Florentine designers and engravers: Maso Finiguerra, Baccio Baldini, Antonio Pollaiuola, Sandro Botticelli and Francesco Rosselli. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Digitised on SOLO. FURTHER READING Whitaker, Lucy. “Maso Finiguerra and early Florentine printmaking.” In Drawing 1400–1600: Invention and Innovation. Edited by Stuart Currie. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. Print
Pollaiuolo | The Battle of the Nudes
Many major museums have a version of the print digitised and catalogued. It’s worth reading some of these short, but highly informative entries. A particularly useful catalogue note can be found on the Cleveland Museum website. A separate conservation site dedicated to the Cleveland sheet is packed with useful information, and can be accessed by clicking here. In particular, the section titled “Engravings, impressions and states” is a helpful guide for the terminology used by print historians, and for how a print is examined and written about by art historians and conservators today. For a brief introductory video on the work click here. BIBLIOGRAPHY Landau, David and Peter Parshall. Renaissance Print, 1470 – 1550. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Chapter III, “The Development of a Tonal System,” pp. 73-74. Digitised on SOLO. Langdale, Shelley R. Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo’s Renaissance Masterpiece. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003 Lincoln, Evelyn. The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker. New Haven: Yale University Press, 200: pp. 30 – 31. Digitised on SOLO. Oldzewski, Edward J. “Bring on the Clones: Pollaiuolo’s Battle of Ten Nude Men.” Artibus et Historiae 30, no. 60 (2009): 9 – 38. Digitised on JSTOR. FURTHER READING Evans, Mark L. “Pollaiuolo, Dürer and the Master IAM van Zwolle.” Print Quarterly 3, no. 2 (1986): 109 – 116. Digitised on JSTOR. Landau, David. “Review: Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo’s Renaissance Masterpiece by Shelley R. Langdale.” Print Quarterly 20, no. 4 (2004): 408 – 412. Digitised on JSTOR. Levenson, Jay A., Konrad Oberhuber, and Jacquelyn L. Sheehan, Early Italian engravings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington: The National Gallery, 1973. Cat. 13. Print. Spangenberg, Kristin L. Six centuries of master prints: treasures from the Herbert Greer French collection. Cincinnati : Cincinnati Art Museum, 1993. Cat. 16. Print.