Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia
1612
Designer, Italian, 1547 - 1627
Engraver, Italian, 1572 - 1622
Engraver, Italian, born c. 1570
Author, Italian
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
2013.67.9.1-23
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Catalogue Raisonné
Illus. Bartsch 1983. nos. 130-136
Associated Artworks
See all 23 artworks
Chapel of Saint Sebastian (Cappella di San Sebastiano) [plate N]
Jacopo Ligozzi, Italian 16th/17th Century, 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
Apparition of the Virgin in the Beech Tree (Faggio dell'apparizione della Vergine) [plate P]
Jacopo Ligozzi, Raffaello Schiaminossi, 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