Agostino Veneziano
Agostino Veneziano ("Venetian Agostino"), whose real name was Agostino de' Musi (c. 1490 – c. 1540), was an important and prolific Italian
Life
Veneziano was born in Venice, where he trained as an artist, though his teacher is unknown. He initially copied prints by Albrecht Dürer and Giulio Campagnola from about 1512-14, and then producing his own works, somewhat in the style of the latter. He spent some time in Florence around 1515-16. He moved to Rome, perhaps as early as 1514,[1] and by 1516 had joined the printmaking workshop of Marcantonio Raimondi, of which he was one of the most important members until it was broken up by the Sack of Rome in 1527. Unlike many produced by the workshop, most of Agostino's plates avoided being confiscated and melted down by Charles V's soldiers, and continued to be printed in later years.[2] Agostino returned to Venice after the sack, and later visited Mantua and Florence before returning to Rome in 1531, remaining until at least 1536. It is assumed he died there, though there is no documentation. He was the only major figure whose career spanned the whole period which saw the birth of the reproductive print, and the beginnings of the "industrialization" of Italian printmaking.
Works
Although many of his prints bear his monogram, others do not, and he is a party in several disputed attributions, among them perhaps his most famous print, Lo stregozzo (The Sorcerers), an extravagant fantasy rather atypical of his work.
Passavant attributed 188 prints to him, though a new total would probably increase this number; 141 prints have his monogram, and probably all are by him.[7]
I Modi
It is thought that Agostino Veneziano may have created a single replacement set of engravings for the images created by Giulio Romano and Marcantonio Raimondi in I Modi.[10] There is one whole image and nine fragments cut from seven engravings that are in the British Museum and it is thought that all of these images come from this replacement set of engravings by Agostino.[10]
It is thought that this replacement set of engravings may have been copied from "A set of offsets from Giulio's Modi drawings...".[8] These engravings by Agostino are dated to around 1530.[9] 'I modi was a book that contained engravings of sexual scenes.[10][9]
Notes
- ^ Landau:143
- ^ Landau p.122
- ^ Harvard[permanent dead link] also sometimes attributed to Raimondi, showing a witch out gathering babies - on permanent display in The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine art & Natural History. The design may be by Giulio Romano.
- ^ "LACMA". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2007-11-11.
- ^ Harvard[permanent dead link]. The cartoon itself is lost, though there is a small version in oil by another artist, and several small drawings by Michelangelo survive. But until the arrival of photography the composition was mainly known from Agostino's print.
- ^ 3 of the series, from Chicago[permanent dead link]
- ^ In other words he was not worth faking. He is lacking a recent full catalogue raisonné, often being counted, as by the Illustrated Bartsch, as "school of Raimondi".
- ^ JSTOR 41826241. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ JSTOR 43826068. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ^ JSTOR 41826241. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
References
- Christopher Witcombe in Grove ArtOnline. Oxford University Press, accessed Nov 11, 2007
- Landau, David, in: David Landau & Peter Parshall, The Renaissance Print, Yale, 1996, ISBN 0-300-06883-2
- Agostino Veneziano engravings from de Verda Collection2345