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The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi

The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi

Boorsch, Suzanne, Michal Lewis, and R. E. Lewis
1985
247 pages
236 illustrations
8.5 x 11 in
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Director's Foreword
Lenders to the Exhibition
Acknowledgments
Museums Visited

Introduction
Suzanne Boorsch

A Note on the Catalogue Raisonné
Michal and R. E. Lewis

Bibliographical Works Cited in Abbreviated Form

Catalogue

Attributed Works

Rejected Works

Watermarks

Appendices

Summaries of Letters from Giorgio Ghisi
Gabrielle Befani Canfield

Ghisis Publishers
Michal and R. E. Lewis

The French Royal Privilege
Michal and R. E. Lewis

Concordance with Bartsch
Bibliography
Index

Met Art in Publication

View of Modern Rome, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Jacob Bos
Antonio Lafreri
1555
An allegory of sickness, man laying prostrate on a bed surrounded by figures, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving (only state)
An allegory of sickness, man laying prostrate on a bed surrounded by figures
Giorgio Ghisi
Giulio Romano
ca. 1540
The Fall of Troy and Escape of Aeneas, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; first state of five (BLL)
The Fall of Troy and Escape of Aeneas
Giorgio Ghisi
Giovanni Battista Scultori
mid-1540's
Resurrection of the Dead (lower left section of the Last Judgment), Niccolò della Casa French, Engraving
Resurrection of the Dead (lower left section of the Last Judgment)
Niccolò della Casa
Michelangelo Buonarroti
1548
The Visitation, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; second state of six (BLL)
The Visitation
Giorgio Ghisi
Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi)
1540–50
The Last Supper, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; second state of four (BLL)
The Last Supper
Multiple artists/makers
1551
The Dispute on the Holy Sacrament; the Holy Trinity in the upper centre surrounded by the Virgin Mary and Saint John, saints, patriarchs and angels; below them an altar with the Holy Sacrament, ecclesiastics and doctors of the Church debating its nature; after Raphael's fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Palace
Multiple artists/makers
1552
Venus pricked by the thorns on a rose bush, in the background Mars chasing Adonis, in the foreground winged cupid resting, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving
Venus pricked by the thorns on a rose bush, in the background Mars chasing Adonis, in the foreground winged cupid resting
Giorgio Ghisi
Luca Penni
1556
Discours du Songe de Poliphile
Francesco Colonna
Jacques Kerver
1546
Apollo and the Muses, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; first state of three
Apollo and the Muses
Giorgio Ghisi
Luca Penni
ca. 1557
Gli oscuri et dificili passi dell'opera ionica di Vitruvio. Di latino volgare et alla chiara inteligentia tradotti., Giovanni Battista Bertano Italian, Printed book with woodcut illustrations and engraved frontispiece
Gli oscuri et dificili passi dell'opera ionica di Vitruvio. Di latino volgare et alla chiara inteligentia tradotti.
Multiple artists/makers
1558
The Calumny of Apelles, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; first state of six, with pen and ink; partially squared
The Calumny of Apelles
Giorgio Ghisi
Luca Penni
1560
Allegory of Birth, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; second state of five
Allegory of Birth
Giorgio Ghisi
Giulio Romano
1558
The Three Fates Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving
The Three Fates Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos
Giorgio Ghisi
Giulio Romano
1558–59
Allegory of Life, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; second state of six (BLL)
Allegory of Life
Giorgio Ghisi
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
1561
Ippolita di Ferdinando Gonzaga (1535–1563) at the age of 16, Leone Leoni Italian, Bronze, cast, Italian
Ippolita di Ferdinando Gonzaga (1535–1563) at the age of 16
Leone Leoni
1551–52
Caius Marius in prison; two Cimbrian soldiers entering his cell, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving
Caius Marius in prison; two Cimbrian soldiers entering his cell
Giorgio Ghisi
Polidoro da Caravaggio
1560–70
Apollo, Pan, and a putto blowing a horn, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving
Apollo, Pan, and a putto blowing a horn, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau
Giorgio Ghisi
Francesco Primaticcio
1560s
Le Impresse Illustri
Multiple artists/makers
1584
Hercules Resting from His Labors, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; second state of two
Hercules Resting from His Labors
Giorgio Ghisi
Giulio Romano
1567
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Lewis, Michal, and R. E. Lewis. 1985. The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi: To Accompany an Exhibition at Saint Louis Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, 16 April-10 November 1985. New York: Metropolitan museum of art.