{"id":851,"date":"2011-06-09T10:08:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso2\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T14:03:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T18:03:08","slug":"d-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/drawings\/d-1\/","title":{"rendered":"D.1 Disputation of the Angel of Death and the Devil (Allegory of Death and Fame)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2262\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1a-bw-Allegory-Death-Uffizi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2262\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2262\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1a-bw-Allegory-Death-Uffizi-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1a-bw-Allegory-Death-Uffizi-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1a-bw-Allegory-Death-Uffizi-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1a-bw-Allegory-Death-Uffizi-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1a-bw-Allegory-Death-Uffizi.jpg 1772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D.1 Disputation of the Angel of Death and the Devil<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Disegno di stampa <\/em>for Agostino Veneziano\u2019s engraving of 1518<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1517<\/p>\n<p>Florence, Uffizi, no. 6499F.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1a-bw-Allegory-Death-Uffizi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.D.1a<\/a> bw<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1b-Allegory-Death-Uffizi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.D.1b<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1c-bw-Allegory-left.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.D.1c<\/a> bw, left side<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1d-bw-Allegory-center.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.D.1d<\/a> bw, center<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1e-bw-Allegory-right.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.D.1e<\/a> bw, right side<\/p>\n<p>Red chalk and traces of heightening in white, 32 x 50.2; wm., an anchor in a circle, similar to Briquet 454-476.\u00a0 Compared to the print made from it by Agostino Veneziano, to a pen copy of the drawing in the Uffizi, and to a copy of that copy in the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale in Paris (on which, see below), it can be seen that the drawing has been slightly cut on all sides. It is not clear how much has been cut from the bottom where, in Agostino Veneziano\u2019s print, rocks and a plant appear in an area that would be below the present bottom edge of the drawing.\u00a0 The whites of the drawing have oxidized.\u00a0 It is also damaged throughout by rubbing.\u00a0 The severest damage is at the left and right edges and along a center vertical crease that runs from top to bottom where the paper and in places only the red chalk have been eaten away by insects.\u00a0 In the background the sketchy landscape details are probably additions.\u00a0 They do not appear in Agostino Veneziano\u2019s engraving, but they are found, more elaborated, in Marco Dente\u2019s print (see below) and in the pen copy of Rosso\u2019s drawing in the Uffizi as well as in the copy of it.\u00a0 It is possible that these landscape details in the original drawing were added by Marco Dente as they appear in his engraving.\u00a0 The pen drawing in the Uffizi may also be his and the model for his reversed print.\u00a0 A much effaced inscription on the rock at the lower right of Rosso\u2019s drawing can be partially read as containing the words: <em>AVGVSTINVS<\/em> and <em>FACIEBAT<\/em>, and the date: <em>1517 <\/em>(the angularity of the \u201c7\u201d can be distinguished from the curvilinearity of the \u201c8\u201d that appears in Agostino Veneziano\u2019s print). This inscription could have been placed there by Rosso for the drawing was certainly made as a <em>disegno di stampa<\/em> and it seems most likely that the broad flat-faced rock on which it appears was intended to receive such writing.\u00a0 But it could also have been written by Agostino Veneziano although his engraving is dated 1518 and not 1517 which appears in the drawing.\u00a0 A small banderole in red chalk is held by the nude old man at the far right on which appears the date: <em>1517<\/em>.\u00a0 This banderole is a later addition in a darker red chalk that partially covers up the original gesture of the figure that can be seen through this banderole and in Agostino\u2019s engraving.\u00a0 There is no reason to think that it was added either by Agostino or Marco Dente as it does not appear in their engravings. Its date repeats that on the rock in the drawing and not that of Agostino\u2019s engraving.<\/p>\n<p>LITERATURE:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ferri, 1890, 125, as Rosso.<\/p>\n<p>Berenson, 1903, no. 2428, as Rosso, and as combining \u201cjaded fantasticality and monstrosity of form with palsy of hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clapp, 1914, 51, n. 4, as Rosso, showing the influence of D\u00fcrer.<\/p>\n<p>Ferri, 1917, no. 14, with Pl., as unquestionably by Rosso.<\/p>\n<p>Kusenberg, 1931, 12-13, 27, 134, 141, no. 34, 157, 183, n. 28, Pl. V, as Rosso and as showing the decisive influence of Bandinelli.<\/p>\n<p>Kusenberg, Strasbourg, 1931, 110, as influenced by D\u00fcrer.<\/p>\n<p>Berenson, 1938, I, 323, II, no. 2428, as in 1903.<\/p>\n<p>De Witt, 1938, 70, under no. 511, as Rosso.<\/p>\n<p>Becherucci, 1944, 26 (1949, 26), as Rosso, and as formerly attributed to Bandinelli.\u00a0 She speaks of the influence not only of D\u00fcrer, Lucas van Leyden, and Hans Baldung Grien, but also of Michelangelo, in its use of light, and of Leonardo, in its old figures showing fear without hope.<\/p>\n<p>Briganti, 1945, Fig. 27, as Rosso.<\/p>\n<p>Barocchi, 1950, 35, n. 1, 37, 65-66, 72, 93, 192-193, 197, n. 1, 200, 210, 214, Fig. 159, as Rosso\u2019s earliest datable drawing, and as showing Northern influence, especially of D\u00fcrer.<\/p>\n<p>Chastel, [1955], 1978, 216, Fig. 81, as showing a winged death revealing a human skeleton to a group of emaciated figures.<\/p>\n<p>Sinibaldi, 1960, 17, no. 86, as Rosso.<\/p>\n<p>Freedberg, 1961, 544-545, as probably early 1518, as made as a modello for Agostino Veneziano\u2019s engraving, and as showing the study of quattrocento art especially the late work of Donatello.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll, 1961, 454, as Rosso, dated 1517.<\/p>\n<p>Berenson, 1961, I, 470, II, no. 2428.<\/p>\n<p>Briganti, 1961, 22 (1962, 21), speaking of the engraving of 1518 [made from this drawing, which he does not mention], gives its invention to Baccio Bandinelli.<\/p>\n<p>Shearman, 1963, 218, n. 62, as Rosso, and as showing quotations from Donatello\u2019s S. Lorenzo pulpit reliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Panofsky, 1964, 232-236, as by Rosso, and as showing Death vindicating the reputation of Savonarola.<\/p>\n<p>Poirier, 1964, 53, 55, writing of Agostino Veneziano\u2019s and Marco Dente\u2019s prints, interpreted the scene as the <em>Vanity of Book Learning<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll, 1964 (1976), I, Bk. I, 37-47, 49, 53, Bk. II, 195-201, D.6, II, Bk. III, Fig. 15, as Rosso, 1517.<\/p>\n<p>Forlani, <em>Disegni italiani<\/em>, [1964], XVII, 167-168, no. 28 and Fig. (detail), as Rosso, his graphic manifesto of Mannerism, and showing Northern influence.<\/p>\n<p>Borea, 1965, Fig. 2, as Rosso, 1517, and as showing, rather than the influence of D\u00fcrer\u2019s prints, expressive sources in Leonardo\u2019s <em>Adoration<\/em> and <em>Battle of Anghiari<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Shearman, 1965, I, 68, n. 1, as Rosso and done in 1517.<\/p>\n<p>Shearman, <em>BM<\/em>, 1966, 158, as showing direct borrowings from Donatello\u2019s S. Lorenzo pulpit reliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Ciardi Dupr\u00e8, 1966, 153-154, and n. 23, as Rosso, 1517; she believed there was another lost drawing representing the \u201cSkeletons\u201d by Bandinelli from which a now lost print was made (on this issue, see below).<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e9guin, 1966, 58, as Rosso.<\/p>\n<p>Borgo, 1968 (1976), 64, as Rosso, and as related, along with a drawing by Fra Bartolommeo, to a reappraisal of the orthodoxy of Savonarola\u2019s doctrines ordered of the Florentine clerical authorities by Leo X in 1516.<\/p>\n<p>Fagiolo Dell\u2019Arco, 1970, 109, n. 12, as Rosso\u2019s, and as showing an acute interest in witchcraft, sorcery, and necromancy.<\/p>\n<p>Ragghianti, 1972, 44.<\/p>\n<p>Ragghianti Collobi, 1974, I, 118, II, 198, Fig. 368, as possibly originally in Vasari\u2019s <em>Libro<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dunkelman, 1976, 151-153, as showing a Donatellesque element from the S. Lorenzo pulpits; she mentions that Kathleen Weil-Garris also relates the drawing to Donatello\u2019s Paduan reliefs, to the central group of the <em>Miser\u2019s Heart<\/em>, and to groups in the <em>Miracle of the Mule<\/em> and to the <em>Miracle of the Speaking Babe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Shearman, 1977, 364, n. 8, as a formal prototype of Perino del Vaga\u2019s drawing of the <em>Descent from the Cross<\/em> in the British Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Barolsky, 1978, 101-102, as a caricature of death and as possibly conceived as a parody of a <em>Piet\u00e0<\/em> or an <em>Entombment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll, 1978, 40, Fig. 25, 42, 45.<\/p>\n<p>Borea, 1979, 365, and n. 54.<\/p>\n<p>Borea, 1980, 247, under no. 609, 247, Fig. 609a.<\/p>\n<p>Burresi and Calaca, 1981, 29, as showing the study of cadavers and the inspiration of Piero di Cosimo.<\/p>\n<p>Ward, 1982, 158, 178, n. 10, 394, under no. 379, notes that it is generally assumed that Vasari was thinking of this drawing, which Ward recognized as Rosso\u2019s, when he attributed the authorship of Agostino Veneziano\u2019s engraving to Bandinelli, but he adds that this is conjectural and not proved.<\/p>\n<p>Darragon, 1983, 33, Fig. 9, as a response to the humanism of such noble groups as those of the <em>Disputa<\/em>, the <em>School of Athens<\/em>, and Leonardo\u2019s <em>Adoration<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00e9v\u00eaque, 1984, 167.<\/p>\n<p>Dacos, 1984, 344, 353, as Rosso, and dated 1517.<\/p>\n<p>Wilmes, 1985, 83-85, 106-108, Fig.9.<\/p>\n<p>Wardropper, 1985, 56-57, mentioned in relation to the anatomy book that Rosso made in France.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll, 1987, 11, 16, 17, 19, 37, 54, Fig., 55, 58, n.4, under no. 2, as Rosso, 1517.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin, 1988, 324; speaking of the print made from the drawing, as related to Bandinelli\u2019s drawings of a somewhat similar iconography.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, 1988, 81, Fig. 22b, under no. 22, as Rosso, 1518.<\/p>\n<p>Leone de Castris, 1988, 42, as an <em>Allegory of Death and Fame<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hamburgh, 1988, 595, supported Panofsky\u2019s positive interpretation of death as it appears in this drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Ward, 1988, 36, under no. 15, as Rosso, 1517.<\/p>\n<p>Kornell, 1989, 844-845, Fig. 54, mentioned in relation to Rosso\u2019s study of anatomy.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll, 1989, 7, 8-9, 10, 14, Fig.1.<\/p>\n<p>Massari, 1989, 50, 52, Fig. 9, as Rosso.<\/p>\n<p>Fischer, 1990, 97, Fig.47, 99, under no. 25, as related to Fra Bartolommeo\u2019s drawing of <em>A Group of Men Discussing around a Skull<\/em> of c.1500 (Rotterdam, Museum Boymans von Beuningen, Vol. M.179, Fischer, 1990, 98, Color Pl.), and accepts Borgo\u2019s interpretation as related to Savonarola.<\/p>\n<p>Ciardi and Mugnaini, 1991, 12, Color Pl., 17-18, 20, 52, as related to the figure of St. Jerome in the <em>S. Maria Nuova Altarpiece<\/em>\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/paintings\/p-5\">P.5<\/a>]\u00a0and to the old woman in the Los Angeles picture [<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/paintings\/p-24\">P.24<\/a>]; also as related to Rosso\u2019s study of anatomy.<\/p>\n<p>Miller, 1992, 109, 110-111.<\/p>\n<p>Landau, in Landau and Parshall, 1994, 159-160, 161, Fig. 169, as Rosso, \u201cas early as 1516,\u201d the print after it by Agostino Veneziano executed in Florence as suggested by Karpinski, 1988 (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-109-veneziano-allegory\/\" target=\"_blank\">see E.109<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Franklin, 1994, 134, 275, n. 50, as given by Vasari to Bandinelli, which must be taken seriously, and close in style to the <em>Preaching of St. John the Baptist <\/em>at Christ Church [<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/rejected-drawings\/rd-25\/\">RD.25<\/a>]\u00a0and the <em>Old Testament Scene<\/em> in the British Museum [<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/rejected-drawings\/rd-19\/\">RD.19<\/a>], all of which should be placed with Bandinelli and his circle.<\/p>\n<p>Ciardi, 1994, 17, 55, 56, Fig., 89, n. 6, 59, n. 114, as by Rosso, and related to a drawing by Fra Bartolommeo in Rotterdam (Vol. M 179); also the frontispiece of a book on anatomy even if also an allegory, referring to Donatello\u2019s pulpit reliefs and to the <em>Adoration <\/em>of Leonardo, the founder of anatomical study.<\/p>\n<p>Mugnaini, 1994, 123, as Rosso, 1517.<\/p>\n<p>Costamagna, 1994, 33, 95, ns. 14 and 15, as by Rosso.<\/p>\n<p>Brugerolles and Guillet, in <em>Dessin en France<\/em>, 1994, 40, under no. 15, as Rosso.<\/p>\n<p>Marchetti Letta, 1994, 29, Color Fig., 30, as Rosso, 1517.<\/p>\n<p>Caron, 1994, 30, n. 16, as by Rosso, and engraved by Agostino Veneziano.<\/p>\n<p>Jollet, 1994, 77, as by Rosso.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Disputation of the Angel of Death and the Devil<\/em>, traditionally called <em>The Skeletons<\/em>, presents many specific similarities to the <em>Fury<\/em> engraved in Rome &#8211; strange and dark imagery, emaciated figures, and detailed anatomy &#8211; a print that Vasari knew was by Caraglio after a drawing by Rosso, probably done in Rome in 1524 (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/04\/E.18a-Caraglio-Fury-London-18730510.220.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.E.18a<\/a>).\u00a0 This attribution has always been accepted.\u00a0 Given the closeness of Caraglio\u2019s prints to the <em>disegni di stampe<\/em> that Rosso made for them, as known from the four that survive for the <em>Gods in Niches<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/drawings\/d-17-18-gods-in-niches\/\" target=\"_blank\">D.17-18<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/04\/E.33-Caraglio-Proserpina-Florence.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.E.33<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/04\/E.34-Caraglio-Mars-Florence.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.E.34<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/04\/E.42-Caraglio-Bacchus-Florence.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.E.42<\/a>), it is reasonable to assume that graphically the lost drawing for the <em>Fury<\/em> closely resembled the <em>Disputation of the Angel of Death and the Devil<\/em>.\u00a0 The latter was certainly made as a <em>disegno di stampa<\/em> from which Agostino Veneziano made his engraving in 1518 (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-109-veneziano-allegory\/\" target=\"_blank\">E.109<\/a>).\u00a0 It is also highly probable that the <em>Fury <\/em>was done to follow upon the success of the engraved <em>Disputation,<\/em> which appeared as a second print by Marco Dente (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-51-dente-allegory-death-and-fame\/\" target=\"_blank\">E.51<\/a>) possibly about the same time as the Roman print.<\/p>\n<p>The types of figures in the drawing and its densely filled composition find correspondences in many other works by Rosso such as the <em>Assumption of the Virgin<\/em>\u00a0of 1513-1514 (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/P.3a-Assumption-color-restored.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.P.3a<\/a>), the S. Maria Nuova Altarpiece of 1518 (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/P.5a-S.-Maria-Nuova-color.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.P.5a<\/a>), the<em> Marriage of the Virgin<\/em> of 1523 (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/P.13a-Marriage-color.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.P.13a<\/a>), and the <em>Madonna della Misericordia<\/em> drawing of 1529 (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/11\/D.35a-Misericordia.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.D.35a<\/a>).\u00a0 Graphically the fine texture of the latter, while creating a more luminous atmosphere, is similar to that of the more dense\u00a0<em>Disputation of the Angel of Death and the Devil<\/em>.\u00a0 But closer is the <em>Study for an Altarpiece<\/em> of 1519 (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/11\/D.4-altarpiece-color.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.D.4<\/a>), with its very fine grained shadows.\u00a0 In all respects the <em>Disputation<\/em> is identifiable with Rosso\u2019s most securely authentic works.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kusenberg and Becherucci, the drawing was once attributed to Bandinelli.\u00a0 But since 1890, when it was first published, it has always been recognized as Rosso\u2019s, except, perhaps inadvertently, by Briganti in 1961 who stated that Agostino Veneziano\u2019s engraving made from it was after an invention of Bandinelli, and by Franklin, who thought it necessary to take seriously Vasari\u2019s attribution of it to Bandinelli.\u00a0 The attribution of the design of the print goes back to Bartsch (1813; see <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-109-veneziano-allegory\/\" target=\"_blank\">E.109<\/a>) and seems to have been made without knowledge of the drawing.\u00a0 But Bartsch\u2019s opinion is very probably dependent upon Vasari\u2019s comments.\u00a0 In his &#8220;Life&#8221; of Bandinelli (1568, III, 426; Vasari-Milanesi, VI, 140, and n. 1), while discussing works that Baccio did in the second decade of the sixteenth century, Vasari states that Agostino Veneziano engraved a \u201ccarta maggiore piena d\u2019anotomie diverse\u201d on Bandinelli\u2019s design.\u00a0 In his account of the career of Agostino Veneziano (Vasari, 1568, II, 302; Vasari-Milanesi, V, 416), Vasari writes that after the death of Raphael Agostino engraved after Baccio\u2019s design \u201cuna notomia che avea fatta d\u2019ignudi secchi e d\u2019ossame di morti.\u201d\u00a0 Although as Raphael died in 1520 Vasari&#8217;s chronology would in this last reference be slightly wrong. \u00a0Both of his statements would seem to be about the <em>Disputation of the Angel of Death and the Devil<\/em>\u00a0of 1518, as Milanesi first said, for no other print by Agostino matches this description.\u00a0 Ciardi Dupr\u00e8 supposed that Vasari was referring to a lost engraving after a lost drawing by Bandinelli and Ward indicated in 1982 that it is only an unproved conjecture that in the passages quoted above Vasari was thinking of this drawing in the Uffizi and this print by Agostino.\u00a0 But in spite of these reservations it is quite probable that he was in fact thinking about this print and, by implication, at least, this drawing (it is not clear that Vasari actually knew the latter).\u00a0 Hence, it appears that already in the mid-sixteenth century Vasari thought that the print, inscribed only with the engraver&#8217;s name, was based on an invention by Bandinelli.\u00a0 But neither this print nor the drawing from which it was made are closely related to any work that can with certainty be attributed to Bandinelli.\u00a0 There is no image by Baccio that is of this extraordinarily bizarre kind, nor is the very fine detail of the <em>Disputation<\/em> characteristic of his drawings.\u00a0 If, then, this is the image that Vasari was writing about, he was wrong in thinking it was done by Bandinelli.\u00a0 The <em>Preaching of St. John the Baptist <\/em>at Christ Church (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/09\/RD.25-St.-John.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.RD.25<\/a>) and the <em>Old Testament Scene <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/09\/RD.19-Old-Testament.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.RD.19<\/a>) that Franklin would like to group with the <em>Disputation<\/em>\u00a0as Bandinelli present their own somewhat different problems.<\/p>\n<p>Although the date of 1517 on the small banderole in the drawing is not due to Rosso, and the same much effaced date on the rock may be due to the engraver, there is no reason to believe that they are not correct.\u00a0 As this date is not copied from the print, dated 1518, one must assume that whoever inscribed 1517 on the drawing, if not Rosso himself on the rock, knew it to be correct.\u00a0 Stylistically, this is a most appropriate date for the <em>Disputation<\/em>\u00a0that is easily understandable as just preceding the S. Maria Nuova Altarpiece, commissioned on 30 January 1518.\u00a0 The figures of St. Anthony Abbot (Benedict) and especially St. Jerome could almost have come out of the Uffizi drawing.\u00a0 Landau gives no reasons for thinking the drawing was done as early as 1516, which seems unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>COPY: Florence, Uffizi, no. 14669F (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1-COPY-Florence.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.D.1 Copy, Florence<\/a>).\u00a0 Pen and ink, 28.3 x 43.5 (max.), laid down; torn crease down center separating sheet almost into two halves; the upper right corner missing down to the center of the right edge of the sheet, including the shoulders and head of the nude old man at the right; the missing part of this figure and the wall of cut stone behind him are made up in pen and ink from Marco Dente\u2019s engraving of this scene (see below).<\/p>\n<p>LITERATURE:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ferri, 1890, 31, as Bandinelli, and the model for Agostino Veneziano\u2019s engraving (see below).<\/p>\n<p>Ferri, 1917, under no. 14, as a copy of Rosso\u2019s drawing, and the model of Marco Dente\u2019s print.<\/p>\n<p>De Witt, 1938, 70, as Bandinelli\u2019s copy of Rosso\u2019s drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Beccherucci, 1944, 26 (1949, 27), mentions a copy by Bandinelli of Rosso\u2019s drawing and probably means this drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Barocchi, 1950, 197, n. 1, as a copy by Bandinelli.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll 1964 (1976), I, Bk. II, 195, under no. D.6, 201, n. 8, as a copy of Rosso\u2019s drawing, the model of Marco Dente\u2019s print, and as possibly by Marco Dente himself.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e9guin, 1966, 58.<\/p>\n<p>Borea, 1979, 365, n. 54, as by Bandinelli? and the model for Marco Dente\u2019s print.<\/p>\n<p>Borea, 1980, 247, under no. 609, 24B, Fig. 609b.<\/p>\n<p>Dacos, 1984, 353, 361, n. 45, as a weak copy probably from the circle of Bandinelli.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, 1988, 81, n. 4, under no. 22, as probably Dente\u2019s for his print.<\/p>\n<p>Massari, 1989, 50, 52, Fig. 10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the Uffizi this copy is now given to the Shop of Bandinelli.\u00a0 It is in the same direction as Rosso\u2019s drawing and in most of its variations from it this copy is identical to Marco Dente\u2019s reversed engraving (see below and <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/04\/E.51-Dente-Allegory-Florence.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.E.51<\/a>) that is also the same size.\u00a0 The drawing was made from Rosso\u2019s drawing and not from either of the prints of his image.\u00a0 Some heads have been changed and a few have been added, such as the one in profile between the leg of Death and the leg of the Devil just above the reclining skeleton&#8217;s pelvis, and the one under the arm of the nude old man at the far right.\u00a0 Both of these heads appear in Marco Dente\u2019s print.\u00a0 But a group of heads added to the drawing in the distance at the left does not appear in the Dente engraving.\u00a0 The background is an addition to the pen drawing and also appears in the print.\u00a0 A few identical details of this landscape are found in Rosso\u2019s drawing but they would seem to be additions for there is no sign of them in Agostino Veneziano\u2019s engraving.\u00a0 It is possible that the slight landscape indications in Rosso\u2019s drawing were made by the draughtsman of the pen drawing before he proceeded to make his copy in which he enlarged upon these details.\u00a0 The pen drawing, which is not by Bandinelli nor from his shop, gives every indication of being the model for Marco Dente\u2019s print and may well be by this engraver.\u00a0 There is a copy of the Uffizi copy in the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale in Paris (Vol. Eb 7; pen and ink, 27.1 x 42.9; inscribed at bottom center in the same ink as that of the drawing: <em>de ?? mio 1531<\/em>; <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/D.1-bw-COPY-OF-COPY-Allegory-Paris-BN.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.D.1 Copy of Copy, Paris, BN<\/a>) made after the Uffizi copy lost its upper right corner and before it was restored.\u00a0 That section of the drawing in Paris must have been made up with reference to Agostino Veneziano\u2019s print as it does not restore the doorway in the background of Marco Dente\u2019s engraving.\u00a0 But the left side and upper left corner of that doorway, which were not torn away from the Uffizi drawing, are copied in the drawing in Paris, and then extended to form an irregular mass of rocks.\u00a0 For a painting and drawings made from the two engravings, see under <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-51-dente-allegory-death-and-fame\/\" target=\"_blank\">E.51<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-109-veneziano-allegory\/\" target=\"_blank\">E.109<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>PRINTS: Agostino Veneziano, E.109 (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/04\/E.109a-Allegory-London-bw.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.E.109a<\/a>).\u00a0 Made from Rosso\u2019s drawing and in reverse of it.\u00a0 The engraving differs from the drawing in a few details.\u00a0 The top of the composition has been reduced and the bottom may have been enlarged and given a few rocks and a plant that are not in Rosso\u2019s drawing.\u00a0 The hair and beards of the figures in the drawing are, on the whole, more elaborately curled in the engraving.\u00a0 The garment of the bearded man with his hand on his head has a woven texture only at the collar in the drawing but has this texture over his entire garment in the print, perhaps indicated or approved by Rosso (along with the added plants which appear in that part of the image that is cut from the drawing), if it was engraved in Florence in collaborations with Agostino (see similar pattern in D.3).\u00a0 Behind the profile of this figure in the print is seen the back of a head with a full head of hair that does not appear in the drawing which may, however, be smudged here.\u00a0 The man looking into the book that Death holds has been furnished with a hat in the print.\u00a0 A hat has also been given to the man standing behind the Devil.\u00a0 The feathers of Death\u2019s wings are more detailed in the print.\u00a0 These and a few other elaborations of details are probably due to the engraver, in consultation with Rosso if the engraving was made in Florence, rather than to another lost drawing that one would otherwise have to suppose he worked from.\u00a0 In most respects the print follows the drawing precisely and the images of both are exactly the same size.\u00a0 The print shows the scene without the landscape elements that appear in the drawing but these are probably later additions (see above).\u00a0 Although Agostino was in Florence he seems to have settled in Rome in 1516 and thus it would appear that the print was made there, although this is not certain; it could have been made during an undocumented stay in Florence, as suggested by Karpinski and strongly believed by Landau.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Dente, E.51 (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/04\/E.51-Dente-Allegory-Florence.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.E.51<\/a>).\u00a0 In the same direction as Agostino Veneziano\u2019s print, this engraving appears to be derived not directly from Rosso\u2019s drawing but from a pen and ink copy of it (see above) that shows several changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disegno di stampa for Agostino Veneziano\u2019s engraving of 1518 1517 Florence, Uffizi, no. 6499F. 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