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Colossus of Rhodes
Maker
1498-1574
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Width: 26.4 cm
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colossi
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Label Text
One of Maarten van Heemskerck's last print series, the Wonders of the World encompasses some of the most spectacular human-built structures from antiquity, such as the Pyramids in Egypt and the Colosseum in Rome. Only known from classical texts, the Colossus of Rhodes – a bronze statue of the Greek sun-god Helios – was included because of its reputed monumentality, craftsmanship and beauty.
Though the artist’s drawings were completed in 1570, it took Philips Galle almost two years to engrave the plates and publish the whole set.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York, 02/10/2012-27/01/2013
Mantegna to Matisse - Master Drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2012-09/09/2012 ...More
Special Display - Building and Destruction - Architectural Imagery from the Courtauld's Drawings Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/10/2009-17/01/2010
Landscapes in the Making: Dutch & Flemish 16-17th Century Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery, Tobu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 03/11/2000-24/12/2000; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, 02/02/2001-11/03/2001; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, 17/03/2001-15/04/2001
The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986
Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983
Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1965
Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962
Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960
Oxford Arts Club, Oxford, 1929
catalogue untraced, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1924 ...Less
Literature
pp. 102-105
Veldman, Ilja M., The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, Maarten van Heemskerck, Part II, Roosendaal 1994
p. 193 under no. 516
The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 43
Illus. p. 111 ...More
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
no. 25, p. 20
Illus. p. 34
Duclaux, Lise, 'Dessins de Martin van Heemskerck' in 'La revue du Louvre et des Musées de France', December 1981 - pp. 375-380; 5/6
pp. 378-79
Illus. 7 on p. 378
G.L. Conran, Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1965
cat. no. no. 318
p. 95
Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 25
p. 13
Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. no. 60
p. 20 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto, all brown ink and artist's hand: upper left corner: "6. Colossus Solis"; lower left edge, signed, second line obscured by framing line: "Martin van Heemskerck / inventor //"; lower right of centre edge: "5"; lower right corner, dated: "1570".
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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