BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Armand Hammer Collection

DC -- Natl Gallery of Art -- West Wing -- Armand Hammer Collection:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NGAAH_150613_001.JPG: Recent Acquisitions of Italian Renaissance Prints: Ideas Made Flesh June 7 – October 4, 2015 Prints were a primary form of artistic expression in sixteenth-century Italy. Better than any other art form, prints satisfied an exploding demand for the images of the day. They ranged from depictions of the remains of antiquity, to creations inspired by modern humanist thinkers, to religious imagery supporting the Catholic Church's response to the Reformation. Interpreting works in other media, prints transmitted styles across Europe, filling the contemporary imagination and establishing an enduring canon. Engravers and woodcutters reproduced designs supplied by great masters, notably Raphael and Titian. A few painters, such as Parmigianino and the Carracci, put their hands to etching, thereby conveying their own graphic personalities. These two approaches, of systematic reproduction and spontaneous expression, would define the poles of all later printmaking. While the roles and uses of sixteenth-century Italian prints are generally recognized, their inherent aesthetic quality is often undervalued. This is due in part to the Italian printmakers' emphasis on the concept underlying an image or the essence of a model they were interpreting, whether a drawing or painting. The materials and execution of a print were usually a secondary concern: plates and blocks were frequently handled with less care, and individual impressions pulled with less consistency. Even those who collected Italian Renaissance prints long after their creation tended to value invention and composition over diligence and finish. The striking beauty the prints can attain -- the sensuousness with which they express ideas -- remains unfamiliar except to specialized scholars and discriminating collectors. This exhibition is an opportunity to appreciate both the importance and the quality of sixteenth- century Italian prints. It presents some thirty works, all recently acquired, that represent the principal techniques, types, and phenomena of the period: the extravagant invention of Roman and Florentine artists early in the century; the refined artifice of Parmigianino and his interpreters; the technical advances and incipient naturalism of Venetian printmakers; and the compelling expression of masters associated with the Counter-Reformation, especially the Bolognese. Many of the prints are rare, and most of the impressions are exceptionally fine, of the kind briefly printed and seldom seen.
2. NGAAH_150613_008.JPG: Marco Dente The Skeletons, after Baccio Bandinelli, c. 1518
3. NGAAH_150613_016.JPG: Baccio Bandinelli Two Male Nudes, c 1520
4. NGAAH_150613_021.JPG: Nicolas Beatrizet The Massacre of the Innocents, after Marco Dente, after Baccio Bandinelli, 1540s (?)
5. NGAAH_150613_026.JPG: Nicola Della Casa Baccio Bandinelli, c 1544
6. NGAAH_150613_034.JPG: Battista Franco The Sacrifice of Abraham, 1550s
7. NGAAH_150613_044.JPG: Nicolò Boldrini Hercules and the Nemean Lion, partially after Raphael, c. 1566
8. NGAAH_150613_047.JPG: Cornelis Cort The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr, after Titian, 1567
9. NGAAH_150613_055.JPG: Giovanni Battista Pittoni Colassaei, Ro. prospectus 3 (Third View of the Colosseum in Rome), c 1561
10. NGAAH_150613_060.JPG: Adamo Scultori The Setting of the Sun with Chariots of Apollo and Diana, after Giulio Romano
11. NGAAH_150613_065.JPG: Giovanni Battista Fontana The Vision of Ezekiel, 1579
12. NGAAH_150613_070.JPG: Benedetto Bordone The Triumph of Europe, in Francesco Colonna, Hynerotomachia Poliphili, 1499
13. NGAAH_150613_074.JPG: Matteo De'Pasti An Elevating Siege Tower and A Siege Elgine in the Form of a Dragon, in Robertus Valturius, Di re miliari, 1472
14. NGAAH_150613_078.JPG: Giorgio Ghisi The Calumny of Apelles, after Luca Penni, 1560
15. NGAAH_150613_082.JPG: Cherubino Alberti Genius with the French Royal Coat-of-Arms, c 1600
16. NGAAH_150613_087.JPG: Camillo Procaccini The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c 1595-1600
17. NGAAH_150613_093.JPG: Annibale Carracci The Crucifixion, 1581
18. NGAAH_150613_100.JPG: Annibale Carracci The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, 1590
19. NGAAH_150613_104.JPG: Agostino Carracci Giovanni Gabrielli, c 1599
20. NGAAH_150613_109.JPG: Orazio de Santis The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and the Young John the Baptist, after Pompeo Cesura, 1568
21. NGAAH_150613_118.JPG: Marco Dente Saint Michael, after Raphael, c 1520
22. NGAAH_150613_124.JPG: Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio Fury, after Rosso Fiorentino, c. 1524–1525
23. NGAAH_150613_128.JPG: Italian 16th Century The Resurrection, after Francesco Salviati, 1546/1550
24. NGAAH_150613_136.JPG: Domenico del Barbiere Gloria, after Rosso Fiorentino, 1540/1545
25. NGAAH_150613_139.JPG: Antonio da Trento The Martyrdom of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, after Parmigianino, c. 1530
26. NGAAH_150613_144.JPG: Battista Angolo del Moro The Finding of Moses, 1540s
27. NGAAH_150613_149.JPG: Gian Jacopo Caraglio The Marriage of the Virgin, after Parmigianino, c 1526
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