{"id":4265,"date":"2012-04-05T16:20:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T20:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=4265"},"modified":"2012-07-05T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T13:23:27","slug":"e-107-rota-christ-in-a-niche","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-107-rota-christ-in-a-niche\/","title":{"rendered":"E.107 ROTA, Christ in a Niche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engraving by Martino Rota, 36.5 x 21.25 (Zerner: Vienna).\u00a0 Inscribed at the bottom: <em>Il corpo e\u2019l sanque mio preso con zelo \/ Fa l\u2019huom terreno cittadin del Cielo \/ Martini Rota Sebenzan F. \/ Nicolo Nelli exc<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Le Blanc, 1854-1890, III, 367, 15, as by Martino Rota.<\/p>\n<p>COLLECTIONS: Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>LITERATURE: Zerner, <em>IB<\/em>, 33, 1979, 21 (Vienna).\u00a0 Carroll, 1987, 354, n. 1, under no. 111.<\/p>\n<p>This engraving is derived, and reversed, from the <em>Christ in a Niche III<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/04\/E.158-Christ-in-a-Niche-III-Paris.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.E.158<\/a>), which in turn goes back to a design by Rosso (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/04\/E.156-Christ-in-a-Niche-New-York.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.E.156<\/a>).\u00a0 Compared to its immediate source, Rota\u2019s engraving shows a larger niche without the shell motif, and with reliefs above.\u00a0 The cross is larger and rises higher, and the toes of Christ and the chalice overlap the bottom edge of the niche.\u00a0 Furthermore, the chalice has a different design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engraving by Martino Rota, 36.5 x 21.25 (Zerner: Vienna).\u00a0 Inscribed at the bottom: Il corpo e\u2019l sanque mio preso con zelo \/ Fa l\u2019huom terreno cittadin del Cielo \/ Martini Rota Sebenzan F. \/ Nicolo Nelli exc. Le Blanc, 1854-1890, III, 367, 15, as by Martino Rota. COLLECTIONS: Vienna. LITERATURE: Zerner, IB, 33, 1979, 21 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":824,"menu_order":120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4265","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4265","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=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6265,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4265\/revisions\/6265"}],"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=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}