{"id":4100,"date":"2012-04-05T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T20:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=4100"},"modified":"2012-12-18T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:00:37","slug":"e-64-fantuzzi-cartouche-priest-herms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-64-fantuzzi-cartouche-priest-herms\/","title":{"rendered":"E.64 Cartouche: Priest-Herms Framing a Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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E.64 Fantuzzi, Priest-Herms, II<\/p><\/div>\n

Etching by Antonio Fantuzzi, 33 x 50.7 S, arched at the top (Vienna).<\/p>\n

Two states:<\/p>\n

I.\u00a0 Without an oculus in the center of cut stonework above, and without the clouds in the landscape.\u00a0 The only known impression of this state, in London, has torn away the small area where Fantuzzi\u2019s monogram may appear in state II.<\/p>\n

II.\u00a0 With an oculus and stonework above, with clouds in the landscape, and possibly with Fantuzzi\u2019s monogram in the small, dark, arched area at the lower right.<\/p>\n

Fig.E.64 <\/a>(State II, Vienna)<\/p>\n

Bartsch, XVI, 1818, 349-350, 29, as Fantuzzi after some artist of the School of Primaticcio.\u00a0 Herbet, II, 1896, 270 (1969, 66), 5, as Fantuzzi, after one of the frames in the Gallery of Francis I.\u00a0 Zerner, 1969, A.F.37 (Paris, Arsenal), as 1542-1543.<\/p>\n

COLLECTIONS: Berlin, 142-22 (II).\u00a0 London, 1862-7-12-499 (I, cut on all sides).\u00a0 Paris, Eb 14d (II, arch cut from top).\u00a0 Paris, Arsenal, Vol. 168 (1), no. 13 (II) (see Sch\u00e9fer below).\u00a0 Vienna, H.B.XIII, 2, p.70, no. 430 (II), printed in brown ink.<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Sch\u00e9fer, 1894-1929, col. 552, no. 13.<\/p>\n

Zerner, 1964, 75, as late 1542-1543.<\/p>\n

Zerner, 1972, 114, Fig. 171.<\/p>\n

B\u00e9guin and Pressouyre, 1972, 126.<\/p>\n

Zerner, IB<\/em>, 33, 1979, 249 (Vienna).<\/p>\n

Boorsch, in French Renaissance<\/em>, 1994, 242, under no. 41, as arched at the top like another of his cartouches [RE.21], and hence as perhaps related, and perhaps not used or made for Fontainebleau.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This etching is related to the framing of the Combat of Centaurs and Lapiths<\/em> in the Gallery of Francis I (Fig.P.22, I S a<\/a>).\u00a0 But it is also related to the tapestry in Vienna of this part of the gallery (Fig.P.22, I S,Tapestry, a<\/a>) and to a drawing in Ensba in Paris (Fig.Masson 2490<\/a>).\u00a0 The differences among all these works are specified in the catalogue entry of this section of the gallery (P.22, I, S<\/a>).\u00a0 It is possible that the etching goes back to a drawing by Rosso or from his studio of a kind that is reflected in the Paris drawing, where, however, the herm holds a disc showing a salamander.\u00a0 The composition of the etching is almost exactly symmetrical except that the large nudes above play slightly different instruments.\u00a0 Thus, the print could correspond to an early conception by Rosso.\u00a0 The drawing in Paris looks like the kind of copy that Fantuzzi might have made in preparation for his etching.<\/p>\n

The arch and stonework above the cartouche are at variance with the flat ceiling of the Gallery of Francis I.\u00a0 They may be included, in State II, simply to fill the otherwise unused upper part of the plate that Fantuzzi did not wish to cut off.\u00a0 But the arched area may also indicate that the etcher did not actually know the Gallery of Francis I, and hence that the etching was not made at Fontainebleau.\u00a0 The other etching by Fantuzzi with a similar superstructure (Fig.RE.21<\/a>) even goes farther in filling this area with figures and urns.<\/p>\n

COPY, PRINT: E.57,3.\u00a0 Du Cerceau, etching.\u00a0 Herbet, IV, 1900, 303-304 (1969, 153-154), VI (Petits Cartouches), 4.\u00a0 This etching is almost certainly copied, with variations, from Fantuzzi\u2019s print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Etching by Antonio Fantuzzi, 33 x 50.7 S, arched at the top (Vienna). Two states: I.\u00a0 Without an oculus in the center of cut stonework above, and without the clouds in the landscape.\u00a0 The only known impression of this state, in London, has torn away the small area where Fantuzzi\u2019s monogram may appear in state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":824,"menu_order":69,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7949,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4100\/revisions\/7949"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}