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Wilton album, folio 53c: The Glory of the Virgin

1590
Not on view
On folio 53 with three other prints: 27.78.1(178-179 and 181)
For more information on the Wilton album see entry for 27.78.1(1-428)
The subject of this print is not immediately apparent. Bartsch identified it as God the Father showing the Virgin her destiny to be the mother of Christ. More recently Ciampolini describes it as the Immaculate in Glory. The composition is related based on a drawing now at the Uffizi (inv. no. 10851 F; 209 x 136 mm). An impression of a later state

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Wilton album, folio 53c: The Glory of the Virgin
  • Artist: Ventura Salimbeni (Italian, Siena 1568–1613 Siena)
  • Date: 1590
  • Medium: Etching and engraving
  • Dimensions: 8 3/16 in. × 6 in. (20.8 × 15.2 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
  • Object Number: 27.78.1(180)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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The Virgin seated with the Christ Child on her lap embracing her, Joseph seen through an archway at left, after Reni
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Guido Reni
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Two Saints in Adoration, Ventura Salimbeni Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of leadpoint
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The Baptism of Christ
Ventura Salimbeni
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Wilton album, folio 53d: The Vision of Saints Joachim and Anne; the saints connected by vine tendrils to a vision of the Virgin in the heavens
Ventura Salimbeni
Iohannes Statius
1590

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