{"id":4180,"date":"2012-04-05T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T20:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=4180"},"modified":"2012-08-20T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:23:12","slug":"e-86-fantuzzi-cartouche-slouching-figures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-86-fantuzzi-cartouche-slouching-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"E.86 Cartouche: Two Heavily Draped Slouching Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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E.86 Fantuzzi, Draped Slouching Figures<\/p><\/div>\n

Cartouche with Two Heavily Draped Slouching Figures Above Framing a Small Blank Square<\/strong><\/p>\n

Possibly after Rosso.<\/p>\n

Etching by Antonio Fantuzzi, 37.4 x 24.4 S (Paris).<\/p>\n

Fig.E.86<\/a> (Paris)<\/p>\n

Herbet, II, 1896, 273 (1969, 69), 14, as Fantuzzi and seeming to be of a ceiling.\u00a0 Zerner, 1969, XI, and A.F.40 (Paris), as probably 1542.<\/p>\n

COLLECTIONS: Paris, Ed 14d.\u00a0 Vienna, Vol. It.III.3, p.42.<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Berliner, 1925-1926, I, Pl. 114, Text Volume, 41, as Fantuzzi.<\/p>\n

Kusenberg, 1931, 166, as Fantuzzi.<\/p>\n

Zerner, in EdF<\/em>, 1972, 268, Fig., 269, no. 317 (Paris).<\/p>\n

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Kusenberg thought this cartouche was in the style of Rosso and perhaps after a lost decoration at Fontainebleau.\u00a0 Zerner stated that the audacity of the design suggests Rosso and that the foreshortenings of the figures in it may indicate the decoration of a ceiling, as Herbet also thought.\u00a0 The design is conceived as seen straight on in the very center and the foreshortenings are made from this position looking up and looking down.\u00a0 Foreshortenings are also made to indicate the depth of the forms and the backward and forward leanings of the figures.\u00a0 There is also a decided top and bottom to the composition and the blank square is not in the very center of the cartouche.\u00a0 It is therefore not necessary to recognize this design as intended for a ceiling.\u00a0 There is no record of Rosso having made ceiling compositions and the ceiling of the Gallery of Francis I, not, it would seem, designed by him, is of an entirely different kind.\u00a0 One might add that at the time that Rosso was in France and this etching was made, ceilings in France were beamed with coffering.<\/p>\n

Much of the vocabulary of this etching can be found in the Gallery of Francis I, and the design as a whole has, as Zerner saw, an audacity that encourages one to attribute it to Rosso. \u00a0However, neither in the gallery nor anywhere else in Rosso\u2019s art are there figures quite like the heavily draped slouching ones at the top of this cartouche or like the two reclining youths below, although the sleeping one at the right bears some resemblance to the sleeping figure in the Los Angeles painting (Fig.P.24a<\/a>).\u00a0 At the very bottom, the two embracing half-human, half-animal and winged creatures are also not found in Rosso\u2019s art, although they can to some extent be related to the monsters that decorate the altar in the Scene of Sacrifice<\/em> (Fig.P.22, VII N c<\/a>) and the amorous beast in the Loss of Perpetual Youth<\/em> in the gallery (Fig.P.22, II S e<\/a>).\u00a0 Still, there is about the design a certain heaviness of form that makes one wonder if it really is Rosso\u2019s.\u00a0 It could be by Thiry in an especially robust moment, or by Fantuzzi himself, both inspired by Rosso.\u00a0 This print is catalogued here to preserve the possibility that Rosso is the author of its composition, reflecting an aspect of his style not quite seen elsewhere.\u00a0 If by Rosso, it would seem to have been done not before around 1535 or 1536, when his style assumes a largeness of form and a complexity in the postures of his figures that are seen in this etching.\u00a0 In these respects, the print should be compared with the Enlightenment of Francis I<\/em> (Fig.P.22, VII S a<\/a>) and the Combat of Centaurs and Lapiths<\/em> in the Gallery of Francis I (Fig.P.22, I S a<\/a>).<\/p>\n

COPIES, PRINTS: E.56,2.\u00a0 Du Cerceau, etching.\u00a0 Herbet, IV, 1900, 301 (1969, 151), V (Grands Cartouches, Second Set), 2.<\/p>\n

E.57,2.\u00a0 Du Cerceau, etching.\u00a0 Herbet, IV, 1900, 303 (1969, 153), VI (Petits Cartouches), 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cartouche with Two Heavily Draped Slouching Figures Above Framing a Small Blank Square Possibly after Rosso. Etching by Antonio Fantuzzi, 37.4 x 24.4 S (Paris). Fig.E.86 (Paris) Herbet, II, 1896, 273 (1969, 69), 14, as Fantuzzi and seeming to be of a ceiling.\u00a0 Zerner, 1969, XI, and A.F.40 (Paris), as probably 1542. COLLECTIONS: Paris, Ed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":824,"menu_order":91,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4180","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=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6618,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4180\/revisions\/6618"}],"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=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}