Saint John the Evangelist

1560/1565

Bartolomeo Passarotti

Associated Names
Bartolomeo Passarotti

Artist, Bolognese, 1529 - 1592

The image is an engraving featuring a figure dressed in robes, with their head turned upwards to the left. The person has curly hair, a beard, and is holding a cup with a coiled snake in their left hand. The background consists of linear patterns radiating in rays around the figure.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.1 x 15 cm (11 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 29.5 x 15.5 cm (11 5/8 x 6 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1976.45.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 9

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1989

  • Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,1989, no. 32, repro.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1989

  • Reed, Sue Welsh and Richard Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque. Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989: no.32.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: BPasarot (B reversed)

Wikidata ID

Q65566142

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