{"id":5191,"date":"2012-05-04T11:16:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=5191"},"modified":"2012-07-05T09:20:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T13:20:48","slug":"battista-angolo-del-moro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/battista-angolo-del-moro\/","title":{"rendered":"BATTISTA ANGOLO DEL MORO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the prints that are catalogued as copies and derivations of Du Cerceau\u2019s etchings by Battista Angolo del Moro (under E.56,3, and E.57,1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10) are part of a set of twenty-one etchings that Bartsch attributed to Andrea Schiavone (Bartsch, XVI, 1818, 83-91, 13-33).\u00a0 The first state of these etchings with drypoint is uninscribed.\u00a0 Thirteen known in a second state &#8211; and there may be more &#8211; are inscribed in different places on each print: <em>Andrea Schiaon f.<\/em>.\u00a0 A title page by another printmaker (Bartsch, VI, 1818, 91-92) is inscribed: <em>RACCOLTA DE\u2019DISEGNI \/ ET COMPARTIMENTI \/ DIVERSI \/ Tratti da Marmi e Bronzi de Agli antichi Romani \/ ET DEDICATE \/ ALL\u2019ILLMOSIGR. GEORGIO \/ MAYNWARINGE \/ CAP.<sup>NO<\/sup> ENGSE \/ Franc\u00b0 Valesio D. D.<\/em>\u00a0 Valesio was a Venetian publisher.\u00a0 Bartsch thought these prints were after Titian.<\/p>\n<p>Herbet (II, 1896, 268-269, 1969, 64-65, n. 1) accepted the attribution to Schiavone but noted that they were derived from the decorations at Fontainebleau.\u00a0 He specified ten as done after prints by Fantuzzi and thought the other ten &#8211; Herbet miscounted the number in the set &#8211; were either after Fantuzzi\u2019s prints or after prints by others, which are still to be found.<\/p>\n<p>In 1927 the prints were attributed to Moro by Lamberto Donati (\u201cBelle Stampe di Andrea Meldolla detto lo Schiavone,\u201d <em>Archivio storico per la Dalmazia<\/em>, IV, October, 1927, 13-20).\u00a0 Franca Zava Bocazzi (\u201cDi alcuni poco note acquaforte di Andrea Schiavone,\u201d <em>Emporium<\/em>, 137, 1963, 103-111) maintained the old attribution to Schiavone but recognized the source of some of the etchings in Fantuzzi\u2019s prints after Rosso.\u00a0 Zerner (1964, 63, 84, n. 31, but under n. 29) attributed them to Giovanni Battista Pittoni, an attribution that was accepted by Oberhuber (1966, 145, 163-164, under no. 274).\u00a0 In 1979, Zerner (<em>IB<\/em>, 32, 124-145) again suggested Pittoni as the printmaker, but with a question mark.\u00a0 The entire subject of the authorship of these prints was reviewed by Francis L. Richardson in 1980 (109-110).\u00a0 His convincing arguments in support of Donati that the prints are by Moro are accepted by me.\u00a0 They must have been done before 1562, when they served Giovanni Battista Pittoni for the etchings in his <em>Imprese di diversi Principi, Duchi, Signor\u00ef<\/em>, published in Venice that year.<\/p>\n<p>Moro\u2019s prints that appear under Du Cerceau are derived from the latter\u2019s etchings.\u00a0 The twenty-one prints deserve further study, not only to locate the sources of all of them but also to see how those sources have been transformed to make this set.\u00a0 The unity of the set seems determined by its subjects, all of which are related to women.\u00a0 All but one (Bartsch 18) shows the bust of a woman and all but one (Bartsch 33) has a central scene with women as significant figures.<\/p>\n<p>Antal, 1966 (1928-1929), 56, n. 2, mentioned Rosso\u2019s influence on these prints (as by Schiavone).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the prints that are catalogued as copies and derivations of Du Cerceau\u2019s etchings by Battista Angolo del Moro (under E.56,3, and E.57,1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10) are part of a set of twenty-one etchings that Bartsch attributed to Andrea Schiavone (Bartsch, XVI, 1818, 83-91, 13-33).\u00a0 The first state of these etchings with drypoint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":824,"menu_order":116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5191","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5191","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=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6260,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5191\/revisions\/6260"}],"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=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}