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Scelta di disegni del Caracci, Parmegiani, et di Guido Reni

Title: Scelta di disegni del Caracci, Parmegiani, et di Guido Reni / intagliati da Francesco Curti in Bologna, e consecrati all emmo. e reumo. pri[nci]pe il sig. cardle. Farnese, legato de latere di detta città.
Author: Curti, Francesco, 1610-1690
Publication: [Bologna] : Gioseffo Lungo forma, [approximately 1660]

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Description

30 prints in 1 volume : engraving; plate marks 28 x 11 cm, 23 x 17 cm or smaller, volume 30 cm

Summary

Chiefly copies, many in reverse, of a group of engravings by or ascribed to Luca Ciamberlano and Francesco Brizio after drawings by Agostino Carracci, first issued by Pietro Stefanoni, approximately 1600, under the title Scuola perfetta per imparare a disegnare tutto il corpo humano; know also by other titles and with different combinations of prints. See: DeGrazia, Diane. Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family, 1979, page 57. For reproductions of 22 of the source prints, see Illustrated Bartsch, v. 39, Agostino Carracci, The drawing book/Le livre de dessein, no. 3, 7, 12-13, 15-16, 28-30, 35-37, 41-42, 45, 49-50, 54-55, 58, 60, 64, which correspond to no. 2-8, 10-12, 16-21, 23-27 and 30 in the present work.
First print is engraved allegorical title page, with arms of Cardinal Farnese, depicting Hercules with a vanquished opponent, driving off a winged creature with a human face and a lion's body (a Stymphalian bird from his sixth labor, or a harpy; the two mythological creatures were sometimes conflated). This subject is based on a detail of "Trionfo della Divina Provvidenza," a ceiling painting by Pietro da Cortona, in the Galleria di Palazzo Barberini, Sala dei Palafranieri, Rome. Remaining prints are numbered sequentially 2-30 and signed at foot of plate F C F (Franciscus Curtus fecit); no. 7 also signed within image (a hand inscribing "F. Curtus Bonon."). They depict studies of heads and busts of women, men and children; body parts such as ears, lips, eyes, arms, hands, hands working (writing, drawing, doing needlework, playing a keyboard), legs and feet.
Size of plate mark varies. Title page: 23 x 17 cm.; no. 2-27, 30: 18 x 12 cm.; no. 28-29: 28 x 11 cm.

Alternative Title

Scelta di disegni del Carracci, Parmigiani, et di Guido Reni

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Note

Statement of responsibility and dedication with abbreviations expanded: Intagliati da Francesco Curti in Bologna, e consecrati all em[inentissi]mo e reu[erandissi]mo pri[nci]pe il sig[nore] card[ina]le Farnese, legato de latere di detta città.
Approximate date of publication from dedication; Girolamo Cardinal Farnese was papal legate in Bologna 1658-1662.
Article on Curti in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon calls for 33 plates rather than 30. See: Martin, Susanne Christine. "Francesco Curti," in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, v. 23 (1999), page 177; Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online, artist ID: _10177302.

Indexed In (note)

Bertelà, G.G. Incisori bolognesi ed emiliani del '600 (Pinacoteca nazionale (Bologna, Italy) Gabinetto delle stampe. Cat. generale della raccolta di stampe antiche, sez. 3, v. 1)

Additional Formats (note)

Also available online (Getty Research Institute copy) via HathiTrust and Internet Archive.

Provenance (note)

Co[nte] Riccati (engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown and verso of t.p.; probably engraved ca. 1760 for a son of Jacopo Riccati (1676-1764); cf. Gelli, J. 3500 ex libris italiani, no. 575).

Binding (note)

Contemporary vellum. Inked title on spine: Dissegni pittoreschi; inked shelf mark, XXIX, 37.

Call Number

MEM+ (Curti) 11-193

OCLC

40367544

Author

Curti, Francesco, 1610-1690, engraver.

Title

Scelta di disegni del Caracci, Parmegiani, et di Guido Reni / intagliati da Francesco Curti in Bologna, e consecrati all emmo. e reumo. pri[nci]pe il sig. cardle. Farnese, legato de latere di detta città.

Publisher

[Bologna] : Gioseffo Lungo forma, [approximately 1660]

Type of Content

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also available online (Getty Research Institute copy) via HathiTrust and Internet Archive.

Indexed In:

Bertelà, G.G. Incisori bolognesi ed emiliani del '600 (Pinacoteca nazionale (Bologna, Italy) Gabinetto delle stampe. Cat. generale della raccolta di stampe antiche, sez. 3, v. 1), 561, 562 (no. 15 and no. 7 respectively)

Binding

Contemporary vellum. Inked title on spine: Dissegni pittoreschi; inked shelf mark, XXIX, 37. NN

Provenance

Co[nte] Riccati (engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown and verso of t.p.; probably engraved ca. 1760 for a son of Jacopo Riccati (1676-1764); cf. Gelli, J. 3500 ex libris italiani, no. 575). NN

Local Note

Digital facsimile of title page (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco copy) available via the Museums' website: https://art.famsf.org/francesco-curti/title-page-series-scelta-di-disegni-del-caracci-parmegiani-et-di-guido-reni

Place of Publication

Italy Bologna.

Added Author

Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602, artist.

Parmigianino, 1503-1540, artist, attributed name.

Reni, Guido, 1575-1642, artist, attributed name.

Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669, artist.

Ciamberlano, Luca, active 1599-1641.

Brizio, Francesco, approximately 1574-1623.

Longhi, Giuseppe, 1620-1691, publisher.

Farnese, Girolamo, 1599-1668, dedicatee.

Riccati, conte. Former owner

Other Form:

Online version: Curti, Francesco, 1610-1690. Scelta di disegni del Caracci, Parmegiani, et di Guido Reni. [Bologna] : Gioseffo Lungo forma, [ca. 1660] (OCoLC)936078963

Related To

Based on (work): Scuola perfetta per imparare a disegnare tutto il corpo humano. [Rome] : [Pietro Stefanoni], [approximately 1600].

Research Call Number

MEM+ (Curti) 11-193

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