Diana Scultori (aka Diana Scultori; Diana Mantuana; Diana Mantovana; Diana Ghisi) (1547–1612)
“Marcia de Cavaleri”, 1575
(see publication details below), after a stucco
frieze (erroneously described by A Zanetti [1837] in “Le Premier Siècle de la Calcographie”
as a fresco) in the Palazzo del Tè at Mantua and
drawings by Giulio Romano (1499–1546) now
lost apart from two drawings (including the composition of this engraving) preserved
in the Louvre (inv. 3555), showing the triumphal entry of the Emperor Sigismund into Mantua. Initially published as an engraved
frieze incorporating three sheets with a total size of 17 x 99 cm, but in the
final state (shown here) the middle section has been extracted and published by Carlo Losi (fl.1757–1805) in Rome in 1773 (as
inscribed on the plate).
Note that Antoine Bouzonnet-Stella (1637–1682)
made a copy of this composition (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1860-0114-70)
as well as Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635–1700) and Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630).
Engraving on laid paper backed with a support
sheet.
Size: (sheet trimmed unevenly) 21 x 37.5 cm; (plate)
17.3 x 32.5 cm.
Inscribed on plate along lower edge: (left) “In
Roma presso Carlo Losi 1773”; (left of centre) “All’ Illmo Sigr. Scipione Gonzagga/
Diana Mantouana”
State iv (of iv) with the publication details of
Carlo Losi.
Bellini 24 VI (Paolo Bellini 199, “L’Opera Incisa
Adamo e Diana Scultori”, Venice, Neri Pozza Editore, pp. 205–207, cat. no. 24).
Condition: richly inked, strong impression laid
onto a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper. Apart from a
few nicks to the margin edges and minor signs of handling, the sheet is in an excellent
condition with no holes, folds, holes, losses, abrasions, significant stains or
foxing.
I am selling this strong engraving by an equally
strong and remarkably interesting Renaissance female artist who (from my fading
memory and I apologise in advance if I am wrong …) was the first artist to
copyright the adding of pictures to caps—admittedly the caps were really
sleeping bonnets with a printed view of Delft sown on—and was so driven to
succeed in a man's world that she has a string of alternative names as she
changed her family name to fit with those in power at the time and was ruthless
with those who got in her way, for AU$280 (currently US$200.56/EUR170.24/GBP153.07
at the time of posting this print) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and
handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes
imposed by some countries.
If you are interested in purchasing this superb
engraving, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send
you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.
This print has been sold
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