Title
The Adoration of the Magi
1579
Artists
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Details
- Date
- 1579
- Media category
- Materials used
- engraving (on four sheets)
- Edition
- iii of 5 states
- Dimensions
- 80.0 x 104.0 cm (trimmed to platemark)
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret Delmer 1985
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 238.1985
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Agostino Carracci
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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after Baldassare Peruzzi
Works in the collection
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About
From either side of the composition the kings' cortège winds its way towards the Christ Child through a fantastical landscape dotted with antique monuments. The engraving is based on a drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi, made in Bologna in c.1523 for Count Giovanni Battista Bentivoglio (now in the British Museum). The gallery's engraving lacks the upper section showing God in heaven surrounded by angels.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Piety and Paganism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jul 1991–29 Sep 1991
Splendour of the Baroque: Painting from Bologna 1550 to 1750, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 May 1993–18 Jul 1993
Splendour of the Baroque: Painting from Bologna 1550 to 1750, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 20 Sep 1993–31 Oct 1993
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 3 publications
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Nicolas Draffin, Piety and Paganism, 'Introduction', pp 3-5, Sydney, 1991, p 4, p 7. no catalogue numbers
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Peter Raissis, Prints & drawings Europe 1500-1900, Sydney, 2014, col illus p 45.
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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, p 5, p 8. no catalogue numbers
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