The Calumny of Apelles
1560
Artist, Italian, 1520 - 1582

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 36.9 x 32 cm (14 1/2 x 12 5/8 in.)
sheet: 38.2 x 33.3 cm (15 1/16 x 13 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2006.39.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Boorsch/Lewis 1985, no. 27, State iii/vi
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Hill-Stone Incorporated, New York); purchased 2006 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2008
Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 18.
2015
Recent Acquisitions of Italian Renaissance Prints: Ideas Made Flesh, NGA, 2015.
Bibliography
1985
Boorsch, Suzanne and Michal and R.E. Lewis. The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985.
Inscriptions
lower right on throne: GEOR / GIVS / GHISI / MANT / .F. 1560; lower left in image: CVM PRIVILE / GIO REGIS; lower center in image: ATTRAHIT INSONTE PERIVRA CALVMNIA APELLE / IN IVS IMMISCENS FANDA NEFANDA SIMVL / AVRICVLIS IVDEX INSIGNIS TEPORA ASELLI / IVS PARITER REDDIT COCLITE CV COMITE / TEMPORIS AT DEMV QVAE FERTVR FILIA SEROS / IN LVCEM PROFERT QVI LATVRERE DOLOS; lower right in tablet: LVCA / PENIS / .IN.
Wikidata ID
Q76341287