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Description: | RH inscr. in block b.l. "AA in mantoua 1602" CRE UNKNOWN; (Italian; 16th century) AFTER PARMIGIANINO, Francesco Mazzola; (Italian; 1503-1540) ATTR TRENTO, Antonio da; (Italian; c. 1508-after1550) Printed from two blocks; second state, and thus later impression of a print by an unknown master after Parmigianino. Along with other blocks by earlier artists, impressions of which remained rare, those for this print were acquired by Andrea Andreani in Mantua who reissued them in the years 1602-1610, adding his own monogram. This image reproduces a design in the Uffizi, and is inspired, not by Homer's Odyssey, but by a Renaissance work, Matteo Boiardo's Orlando innamorato (1483), which explains why the nymph's victims are transformed into serpents, not swine. Parmigianino's source is Book 1. canto 6. stanza 50 1-8, where one of Circella's noble victims is transformed into the griffon visible to the right:
Era una giovanetta in ripa al mare,
Sì vivamente in viso colorita,
Che, chi la vede, par che oda parlare.
Questa ciascuno alla sua ripa invita,
Poi li fa tutti in bestie tramutare.
La forma umana si vedia rapita;
Chi lupo, chi leone e chi cingiale,
Chi diventa orso, e chi grifon con l' ale.
This print can be connected, because it illustrates Boiardo's epic, with the Sanvitale family at whose rocca of Fontanellato the artist painted frescoes of Diana and Actaeon, possibly in 1523-4. The date 1524 appears on the verso of Parmigianino's portrait of Galeazzo Sanvitale, which would thus be painted soon after he inherited the title to Fontanellato. The poet Boiardo was an ancestor of Galeazzo's niece Silvia Sanvitale, married to Giulio Boiardo, who was installed as Count of Scandiano in 1530. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | RELIGION : DEATH : FIGURE : MALE : MYTHOLOGY : FEMALE : ORLANDO INNAMORATO : BOAT : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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