{"id":4133,"date":"2012-04-05T16:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=4133"},"modified":"2012-08-20T09:28:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T13:28:32","slug":"e-74-fantuzzi-enlightenment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-74-fantuzzi-enlightenment\/","title":{"rendered":"E.74 Enlightenment of Francis I"},"content":{"rendered":"
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E.74 Fantuzzi, Enlightenment of Francis I<\/p><\/div>\n

Etching by Antonio Fantuzzi, 30.9 x 42.8 S (Vienna).<\/p>\n

Fig.E.74<\/a> (London)<\/p>\n

Heinecken, IV, 1790, 532, as Leon Daven after Rosso.\u00a0 Bartsch, XVI, 1818, 393, 43, as Anonymous, School of Fontainebleau, after Rosso.\u00a0 Robert-Dumesnil, VII, 1850, 24-25, under no. 16, as Fantuzzi, specifies differences between this etching and Boyvin\u2019s engraving of the same scene.\u00a0 Herbet, II, 1896, 278 (1969, 74), 28, as Fantuzzi.\u00a0 Zerner, 1969, A.F.24 (Paris), as 1542?<\/p>\n

COLLECTIONS: London, 1850-5-27-78.\u00a0 New York, 44.104.1; 66.658.7 (in red brown ink).\u00a0 Oxford (under Boyvin).\u00a0 Paris, Eb 14d (slightly damaged top center; stamped at lower right: D.3159<\/em>).\u00a0 Vienna, H.B.IV, p.98, no. 106 (in red ink).<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Kusenberg, 1931, 164.<\/p>\n

Bocazzi, 1962, 63, no. 25, stating wrongly that Vasari gave the print to Boyvin.<\/p>\n

Zerner, 1964, 75, as datable in 1542.<\/p>\n

Oberhuber, 1966, 148, no. 237.<\/p>\n

Zerner, 1972, 113, Fig. 166.<\/p>\n

B\u00e9guin and Pressouyre, 1972, 137, as probably 1543.<\/p>\n

Zerner, IB<\/em>, 33, 179, 319 (Vienna).<\/p>\n

K. Wilson-Chevalier, in Fontainebleau<\/em>, 1985, 248-249, no. 194 (Private Collection).<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1987, 31, 45, 288-291, no. 92, with Fig. (Vienna).<\/p>\n

Davis, 1988, 225, under no. 100.<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1989, 26-27, Fig. 46 (Paris).<\/p>\n

Reed and Wallace, 1989, 23, under no. 15.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The etching is very closely related to a lost drawing by Rosso known from three copies (Fig.D.61A<\/a>; Fig.D.61B<\/a>; Fig.D.61C<\/a>).\u00a0 Fantuzzi has slightly extended the scene at the top and includes the capitals of three columns that do not appear in the copies, or in Rosso\u2019s fresco.\u00a0 The print also extends the image slightly at the left and slightly more is seen of the figures there.\u00a0 A small extension also appears at the bottom and at the right.\u00a0 The inscriptions on the urns above the door have been eliminated by Fantuzzi and the figure entering the door of the temple has been slightly changed.\u00a0 He has a longer beard, his cuirass has a band across the back, more flaps hanging from the waist, flaps over the upper arm instead of a lion\u2019s head, and, by the addition of a few short lines, he is shown wearing boots; his sword is also shorter.\u00a0 These are the only significant differences from what appears in the copies of Rosso\u2019s drawing.\u00a0 In Rosso\u2019s fresco in the Gallery of Francis I (Fig.P.22, VII S a<\/a>), this figure is exactly as he is in the drawings, except that he wears high-laced sandals.\u00a0 These, however, are not like the boots in Fantuzzi\u2019s etching.\u00a0 Fantuzzi\u2019s changes to this figure are probably merely incidental, resulting possibly from Fantuzzi\u2019s wish to make the costume of the figure more complete and correct.\u00a0 Hence the flaps and the boots.\u00a0 As in all other respects, except those specified above, the etching resembles the copies of Rosso\u2019s lost drawing, which differs in certain details from the fresco, it is very likely that that lost drawing was the model that Fantuzzi used.<\/p>\n

The etching is in reverse of the drawings, and hence also of the painting, and is of approximately the same size as the drawings.\u00a0 But because Fantuzzi slightly expands the space of the scene, his figures appear slightly smaller.\u00a0 Although his etching technique gives a less compact aspect to the forms of the figures and makes the space between them less perceptible, the print gives every evidence of Fantuzzi\u2019s intention to copy Rosso\u2019s image faithfully. \u00a0The most significant missing element is the effect of the light shining out from the doorway.\u00a0 This is well reproduced in Boyvin\u2019s engraving of the same scene (Fig.E.12<\/a>), which more specifically copies Rosso\u2019s lost drawing, although that print does not show the Royal F over the door that Fantuzzi preserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Etching by Antonio Fantuzzi, 30.9 x 42.8 S (Vienna). Fig.E.74 (London) Heinecken, IV, 1790, 532, as Leon Daven after Rosso.\u00a0 Bartsch, XVI, 1818, 393, 43, as Anonymous, School of Fontainebleau, after Rosso.\u00a0 Robert-Dumesnil, VII, 1850, 24-25, under no. 16, as Fantuzzi, specifies differences between this etching and Boyvin\u2019s engraving of the same scene.\u00a0 Herbet, II, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":824,"menu_order":79,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4133","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=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6600,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4133\/revisions\/6600"}],"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=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}