Fury personified as an emaciated man astride a monster, holding a skull in his raised left hand
One of Caraglio’s most successful collaborations in Rome in the 1520s was with the Florentine artist Rosso Fiorentino. Rosso spent most of his time in Rome creating designs for prints that were commissioned by the art dealer and publisher Il Baviera (Baviera Carocci da Parma, Italian, active ca. 1515–30). The publisher seems to have been an entrepreneur in commissioning print series, and Rosso and Caraglio worked together on his series of Gods in Niches, The Labors of Hercules, and The Loves of the Gods. Caraglio also translated some individual compositions by Rosso into prints, including Fury. The unconventional image signals Rosso’s expressive nature and the fact that, as an artist, he was not strictly “in pursuit of beauty.” Caraglio’s sharp tonality fits the gloominess of the subject and the composition originally created by the Florentine.
Artwork Details
- Title: Fury personified as an emaciated man astride a monster, holding a skull in his raised left hand
- Artist: Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio (Italian, Parma or Verona ca. 1500/1505–1565 Krakow (?))
- Artist: After Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, Florence 1494–1540 Fontainebleau)
- Date: ca. 1520–39
- Medium: Engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 7 in. (23.6 × 17.8 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
- Object Number: 49.97.251
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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