Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia
1612
Designer, Italian, 1547 - 1627
Engraver, Italian, 1572 - 1622
Engraver, Italian, born c. 1570
Author, Italian
Jacopo Ligozzi (designer), Raffaello Schiaminossi, Domenico Falcini, Lino Moroni (author)
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with one engraved frontispiece and 22 engraved or etched illustrations with 5 overslips on plates F, G, I, R (2)
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Credit Line
Acquisition funded by a grant from The B.H. Breslauer Foundation, 2013
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Dimensions
book: 43.3 × 30 × 1.8 cm (17 1/16 × 11 13/16 × 11/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2013.67.9.1-23
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Catalogue Raisonné
Illus. Bartsch 1983. nos. 130-136
Associated Artworks
See all 23 artworks
Frontispiece with Portrait of Saint Francis
Jacopo Ligozzi, Domenico Falcini, Lino Moroni
1612
View of the Mountain of La Verna from the Road of Casentino (Vue de la montagne della Vernia...) [plate A]
Jacopo Ligozzi, Raffaello Schiaminossi, Lino Moroni
1612
Spring of Saint Francis (Fonte di San Francesco) [plate B]
Jacopo Ligozzi, Italian 16th/17th Century, Domenico Falcini, Lino Moroni
1612
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Marlborough Rare Books); purchased 1989 by Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Boston; (sale, Christie's New York, 20 June 2013, no. 621); purchased 2013 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2018
Heavenly Earth: Images of Saint Francis at La Verna, NGA, 2018.
Bibliography
1983
Bartsch, Adam. The Illustrated Bartsch: Italian Artists of the Sixteenth Century. 38. New York: 1983, nos. 130-136.
1999
Conigliello, Lucilla. Vedute del Sacro Monte della Verna. Florence: 1999, nos. 1-23.
Inscriptions
by later hands, upper paste-down upper right in brown ink: 89-78-5; upper left in graphite: 89/320/EXVA / First issue, with plates before letters / overslips (F.G.I.R(2)) / cf.E.P. Goldschnidt, cat. 165/68 ; lower center: ref: Rech and wallace "Italian Etchers of Renaissance & Baroque" / Mus Fine Arts Boston 1989 - item109 / This copy: first edition, proof copy (underlined) (unique?) with all / plates prior to letters in upper right corners of plates / note (underlined) title page shows originally the stigmata was on St. Francis' left side and is here corrected by / hand - regular first edition shows stigmata on St. Francis' right side; lower paste-down: 2800/621; on lower cover across top, read in reverse through velum: Edcr bi Fele Marvhiarcde 4 Conventi / 1753