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Description: | CRE STRANGE, Robert, Sir; (Scottish; 1721-1792) AFTER TITIAN (Tiziano Vecelli); (Italian; 1480/85-1576) From the founder, William Hunter's collection, in which there were numerous engravings by his friend Robert Strange. Titian painted his famous Danaë in Rome 1544-6 (Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte), and Vasari links it in his Lives with an anecdote about Michelangelo visiting the painter, and offering the opinion that it was a work lacking in 'disegno', or good drawing. Strange spent several years travelling in Italy in order to purchase paintings, and make copy drawings of famous paintings which he engraved on his return to London. His visit to Naples in 1762 was recorded in the Annual Register: 'They write from Naples, that Mr Strange meets with all the honours and encouragements there, which his best friends could wish...' After the British envoy had failed to obtain permission for him to copy a painting by Schedoni, '...his drawings were shown to the king's governor...and then liberty was immediately granted him, not only to make a drawing from that picture, but from as many others of the famous Parma collection as he should chuse....'Note: the image attached is of another, better impression, GLAHA 16583 | 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: | HUNTER 2007 : PARMA COLLECTION : FARNESE COLLECTION : MYTHOLOGY : OVID METAMORPHOSES : EROTIC PAINTING : SHOWER OF GOLD : | 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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