Nicolò Boldrini

Italian, born c. 1510, active c. 1530 - c. 1570

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Printed with golden tan shading and black outlines on buff-colored paper, a nude, muscular man wrestles a lion in a landscape in this horizontal woodcut. The man and animal’s bodies curl around each other in the lower right quadrant of the scene. The man reaches over the back of the lion’s neck as the latter claws and the man’s leg. They battle on a path that runs across the picture from behind tall trees along the left edge of the composition and beyond rocky ground with scrubby plants along the bottom edge. A club leans against a stone in the lower right corner. Hills and trees roll back in space, reaching the top edge along the way. Closer inspection reveals the back end of a second lion going into a cave near the right edge of the woodcut. An inscription is included on a long rock along the bottom edge of the print. It reads, “RAPHAEL VR. INV.”
Nicolò Boldrini, Hercules and the Nemean Lion, c. 1566, chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks in tan and black ink on buff laid paper, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 2014.1.1

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Nicolò Boldrini · c. 1566 · chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks in tan and black ink on buff laid paper ·  Accession ID  2014.1.1

Nicolò Boldrini, Hunter on Horseback, 1566, chiarascuro woodcut printed from 2 blocks: black line block and ochre tone block on laid paper, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 1996.22.1

Hunter on Horseback

Nicolò Boldrini · 1566 · chiarascuro woodcut printed from 2 blocks: black line block and ochre tone block on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1996.22.1

Printed with black lines and shading on buff-colored paper, a nude, muscular man wrestles a lion in a landscape in this horizontal woodcut. The man and animal’s bodies curl around each other in the lower right quadrant of the scene. The man reaches over the back of the lion’s neck as the latter claws and the man’s leg. They battle on a path that runs across the picture from behind tall trees along the left edge of the composition and beyond rocky ground with scrubby plants along the bottom edge. A club leans against a stone in the lower right corner. Hills and trees roll back in space, reaching the top edge along the way. Closer inspection reveals the back end of a second lion going into a cave near the right edge of the woodcut. An inscription is included on a long rock along the bottom edge of the print. It reads, “RAPHAEL VR. INV.”
Nicolò Boldrini, Hercules and the Nemean Lion, c. 1566, woodcut on laid paper (line block from chiaroscuro woodcut), Gift of James A. Bergquist, Boston, in Honor of Peter Parshall, 2014.48.1

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Nicolò Boldrini · c. 1566 · woodcut on laid paper (line block from chiaroscuro woodcut) ·  Accession ID  2014.48.1

Nicolò Boldrini, Venus and Cupid, 1566, woodcut, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.934

Venus and Cupid

Nicolò Boldrini · 1566 · woodcut ·  Accession ID  1943.3.934

Titian, Giovanni Britto, Nicolò Boldrini, Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, c. 1530, woodcut on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2005.14.1

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Titian, Giovanni Britto, Nicolò Boldrini · c. 1530 · woodcut on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2005.14.1

Nicolò Boldrini, Samson and Delilah, c. 1540, woodcut, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1983.93.1

Samson and Delilah

Nicolò Boldrini · c. 1540 · woodcut ·  Accession ID  1983.93.1

Nicolò Boldrini, Caricature of the Laocoon Group, c. 1540/1545, woodcut on white laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.49.4

Caricature of the Laocoon Group

Nicolò Boldrini · c. 1540/1545 · woodcut on white laid paper ·  Accession ID  1972.49.4

Nicolò Boldrini, The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, c. 1540, woodcut on laid paper, Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund, 2022.69.3

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

Nicolò Boldrini · c. 1540 · woodcut on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2022.69.3

Nicolò Boldrini, Landscape with a Milkmaid, 1530s, woodcut, Rosenwald Collection, 1964.8.372

Landscape with a Milkmaid

Nicolò Boldrini · 1530s · woodcut ·  Accession ID  1964.8.372

Nicolò Boldrini, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, c. 1530/1535, woodcut, Rosenwald Collection, 1964.8.373

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Nicolò Boldrini · c. 1530/1535 · woodcut ·  Accession ID  1964.8.373