{"id":7315,"date":"2012-10-24T18:06:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T22:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=7315"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:16:01","slug":"re20","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/rejected-paintings-sculpture\/re20\/","title":{"rendered":"RE.20 Monument to Vercing\u00e9torix"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RE.20 Monument to Vercingetorix<\/p><\/div>\n

Etching by Antonio Fantuzzi, 40.5 x 25 (Zerner, Paris).<\/p>\n

Fig.RE.20<\/a> (Zerner: Paris)<\/p>\n

Herbet, II, 1896, 279 (1969, 75), 32, as Fantuzzi, and a variant of the central figure of Fantuzzi\u2019s Unity of the State<\/em> after Rosso.\u00a0 Zerner, 1969, A.F.29 (Paris), as in Herbet, 1542-1543.<\/p>\n

COLLECTION: Paris, Ba 12.<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Kusenberg, 1931, 165, as in Herbet.<\/p>\n

Panofsky, 1958, 128, 129 and Fig. 17 (Paris), 169, n. 32, as Fantuzzi after Rosso and a variant of the central figure in the Unity of the State<\/em> but here representing a statue of Vercing\u00e9torix.<\/p>\n

Zerner, in EdF<\/em>, 1972, 265, no. 311, as Fantuzzi and perhaps a first idea for the central figure of Rosso\u2019s Unity of the State<\/em>, or, less probably, a variant by Fantuzzi.<\/p>\n

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Although this figure is related in pose and in the holding of a pomegranate to the central one in Rosso\u2019s Unity of the State<\/em>, to which, as the Panofskys pointed out, it is also symbolically connected, the figure of Vercing\u00e9torix in Fantuzzi\u2019s etching does not stylistically indicate Rosso as its inventor.\u00a0 Neither the proportions of the figure, the characterization of the head, nor the disposition of the drapery suggest a dependency on a drawing by Rosso, which, according to Fantuzzi\u2019s practice, would have been the source of his print.\u00a0 The figure has a certain brutal appearance that reminds one of Giulio Romano and makes one wonder if it might not be by Primaticcio, soon after he arrived in France, in a vein of expression not unlike that of the Hercules in his Hercules Dressed as a Woman by Omphale<\/em>, as etched by Fantuzzi (Zerner, 1969, A.F.17) in a somewhat coarse manner compared to the softer handling in Master L\u00e9on Davent\u2019s print of the same scene (Zerner, 1969, L.D.10), and far more similar than Fantuzzi\u2019s to Primaticcio\u2019s drawing of 1535 in Vienna (B\u00e9guin, in EdF<\/em>, 1972, 136, ill., 139, no. 146).\u00a0 Fantuzzi\u2019s Vercing\u00e9torix could reflect the design of an actual statue conceived perhaps for some festive occasion at Fontainebleau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Etching by Antonio Fantuzzi, 40.5 x 25 (Zerner, Paris). Fig.RE.20 (Zerner: Paris) Herbet, II, 1896, 279 (1969, 75), 32, as Fantuzzi, and a variant of the central figure of Fantuzzi\u2019s Unity of the State after Rosso.\u00a0 Zerner, 1969, A.F.29 (Paris), as in Herbet, 1542-1543. COLLECTION: Paris, Ba 12. LITERATURE: Kusenberg, 1931, 165, as in Herbet. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":1357,"menu_order":220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7315","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7315","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=7315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9488,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7315\/revisions\/9488"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}