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Giulio Bonasone

Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarotti, 1500s

Description

Maker

  • Giulio Bonasone, fl. 1531-1574, Italian

Title

Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarotti

Year

1500s

Medium

engraving

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

22.7 x 17.8 cm (8 7/8 x 7 inches) (plate) including inscription

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered in image: "Michael Angelus Bonarotus Patritius Florentinus An Agens LXXII" / "Quantum In Natura...Fuit Arte Docet" / "MD XLVI" / "Iulio. B. F."

Watermark: "CRA" or "GRA" (countermark?)

Stamped with unidentified collector's mark (Lugt 2368b) and with the mark of John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929; Lugt 1508)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

47.662

Projects & Publications

Publications

La Peintre Graveur, 1803-1821

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Engravings of the 15th and 16th Centuries

November 10, 1948 - February 4, 1949

Recent Acquisitions of the Print Room

September 28 - October 30, 1948

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarotti with the accession number of 47.662. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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