Title
The Nativity
1553
Artists
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Details
- Other Title
- The shepherds adoring the Infant Jesus
- Date
- 1553
- Media category
- Materials used
- engraving
- Edition
- upper sheet 1/2 & lower sheet 2/4
- Dimensions
- 63.7 x 43.6 cm image/sheet overall (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1938
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 6831
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Giorgio Ghisi
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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after Agnolo Bronzino
Works in the collection
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About
In 1550 Ghisi was invited to Antwerp by Hieronymus Cock, the leading northern publisher of the period. This is one of the five large engravings Ghisi made for Cock's publishing house. It reproduces at virtually the same size a panel painting by Bronzino, executed in the late 1530s for Filippo d'Averardo Salviati of Florence. Ghisi added a number of details to the composition such as the walled town in the background and the wreaths held by two angels. In later states the wreaths contain verses in praise of Our Lady.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Piety and Paganism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jul 1991–29 Sep 1991
Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian Old Master Prints from the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Jun 1998–20 Sep 1998
Old Europe: Prints & drawings from the collection 1500-1800, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Jun 2006–06 Aug 2006
European prints and drawings 1500-1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Aug 2014–02 Nov 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Nicholas Draffin, Piety and Paganism, Sydney, 1991, 7. no catalogue numbers
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Peter Raissis, Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian old master prints from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998, 8. no catalogue numbers
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