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Adamo Scultori

Sacrifice of a Pig, ca. 1547-1587

Description

Maker

  • Adamo Scultori, ca. 1530-1585, Italian
  • After Giulio Romano, 1492/1499-1546, Italian, designer

Title

Sacrifice of a Pig

Year

ca. 1547-1587

Medium

Engraving, trimmed within platemark

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 11.6 x 15.9 cm (4 9/16 x 6 1/4 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

65.057

Projects & Publications

Publications

The Brilliant Line

Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Brilliant Line

September 18, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Engravers in the region of Mantua, such as Adamo Scultori and his sister, Diana Mantuana, learned much from the prints of Marcantonio Raimondi and his followers. Given the strong tradition of engraving and fine metalworking in their home city, however, their prints look quite different from those made in Rome. Here, Scultori worked from a dark background achieved with parallel lines and notched dots, and then used profuse dotting to punctuate an otherwise well-known system of crossed lines at the edges of his forms. The flattened surface imitates relief sculpture.

The subject of a sacrifice appealed to the taste for the antique in Mantua, originating in part with Mantegna two generations earlier. The print’s designer, Giulio Romano, was the apprentice and then chief assistant to Raphael in Rome, but spent his mature years in Mantua, where he executed many frescoes and panel paintings to decorate the court of Federico II Gonzaga (1500–1540).

Prints and Drawings with a Classical Reference

December 15, 1965 - January 9, 1966

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