The Calumny of Apelles

1560

Giorgio Ghisi

Artist, Italian, 1520 - 1582

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • 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

  • 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


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