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The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi

The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi

Boorsch, Suzanne, Michal Lewis, and R. E. Lewis

1985

247 pages

236 illustrations

This title is out of print.

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Table of contents

About the authors

Director's Foreword
Lenders to the Exhibition
Acknowledgments
Museums Visited

Introduction
Suzanne Boorsch

A Note on the Catalogue Raisonné
Michal and R. E. Lewis

Bibliographical Works Cited in Abbreviated Form

Catalogue

Attributed Works

Rejected Works

Watermarks

Appendices

Summaries of Letters from Giorgio Ghisi
Gabrielle Befani Canfield

Ghisis Publishers
Michal and R. E. Lewis

The French Royal Privilege
Michal and R. E. Lewis

Concordance with Bartsch
Bibliography
Index

Met Art in Publication

View of Modern Rome, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

1555

An allegory of sickness, man laying prostrate on a bed surrounded by figures, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving (only state) — An allegory of sickness, man laying prostrate on a bed surrounded by figures
ca. 1540

The Fall of Troy and Escape of Aeneas, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; first state of five (BLL) — The Fall of Troy and Escape of Aeneas
mid-1540's

Resurrection of the Dead (lower left section of the Last Judgment), Niccolò della Casa French, Engraving — Resurrection of the Dead (lower left section of the Last Judgment)
1548

The Visitation, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; second state of six (BLL) — The Visitation
1540–50

The Last Supper, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; second state of four (BLL) — The Last Supper
Multiple artists/makers
1551

The Dispute on the Holy Sacrament; the Holy Trinity in the upper centre surrounded by the Virgin Mary and Saint John, saints, patriarchs and angels; below them an altar with the Holy Sacrament, ecclesiastics and doctors of the Church debating its nature; after Raphael's fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Palace

Multiple artists/makers

1552

Venus pricked by the thorns on a rose bush, in the background Mars chasing Adonis, in the foreground winged cupid resting, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving — Venus pricked by the thorns on a rose bush, in the background Mars chasing Adonis, in the foreground winged cupid resting
1556

Discours du Songe de Poliphile

1546

Apollo and the Muses, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; first state of three — Apollo and the Muses
ca. 1557

Gli oscuri et dificili passi dell'opera ionica di Vitruvio. Di latino volgare et alla chiara inteligentia tradotti., Giovanni Battista Bertano Italian, Printed book with woodcut illustrations and engraved frontispiece — Gli oscuri et dificili passi dell'opera ionica di Vitruvio. Di latino volgare et alla chiara inteligentia tradotti.
Multiple artists/makers
1558

The Calumny of Apelles, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; first state of six, with pen and ink; partially squared — The Calumny of Apelles
1560

Allegory of Birth, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; second state of five — Allegory of Birth
1558

The Three Fates Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving — The Three Fates Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos
1558–59

Allegory of Life, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; second state of six (BLL) — Allegory of Life
1561

Ippolita di Ferdinando Gonzaga (1535–1563) at the age of 16, Leone Leoni Italian, Bronze, cast, Italian — Ippolita di Ferdinando Gonzaga (1535–1563) at the age of 16
1551–52

Caius Marius in prison; two Cimbrian soldiers entering his cell, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving — Caius Marius in prison; two Cimbrian soldiers entering his cell
1560–70

Apollo, Pan, and a putto blowing a horn, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving — Apollo, Pan, and a putto blowing a horn, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau
1560s

Le Impresse Illustri

Multiple artists/makers

1584

Hercules Resting from His Labors, Giorgio Ghisi Italian, Engraving; second state of two — Hercules Resting from His Labors
1567

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Lewis, Michal, and R. E. Lewis. 1985. The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi: To Accompany an Exhibition at Saint Louis Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, 16 April-10 November 1985. New York: Metropolitan museum of art.