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Three designs connected with Vasari's 'Lives of the Artists (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1500-1599

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1511-1574

Formerly attributed to
School of the engraver of Vasari's 'Lives of the Artists' (artist)

Title

Three designs connected with Vasari's 'Lives of the Artists (recto)

Date of Production

1550 - 1599

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, on brown laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 30 cm
Width: 20.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.19

Mode of Acquisition

Anthony Blunt, Art Fund bequest & grant aid, 1984

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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collective biographies


Provenance

Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese (1780-1825); left by her to Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Lord Holland (1773-1840); by descent to Mrs Arnett Hibbert; her sale, Sotheby's (London), 9 July 1941, lot 154 (part of a volume of drawings); purchased there by Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965) on behalf of Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983); Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Exhibition History

The Sir Anthony Blunt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1964 (February)

Literature

Moretti, Laura and Sean Roberts, 'From the Vite or the Ritratti? Previously unknown portraits from Vasari's Libro de' Disegni' in 'I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance', 2018 - pp. 105-136; 21, 1
p. 108 n. 14

Cheney, Liana de Girolami, 'Giorgio Vasari's Fine Arts from the Vite of 1550: the Splendor of Creativity and Design' in 'Journal of Literature and Art Studies', February 2017 - pp. 140-78; 7, 2
pp. 157-58
fig. 8 on p. 158

Giorgio Vasari: principi, letterati e artisti nelle carte di Giorgio Vasari, Casa Vasari, Arezzo, 1981
p. 238-242
fig.192 ...More

Prinz, Wolfram, 'La seconda edizione del Vasari e la comparsa di "vite" artistiche con ritratti' in 'Il Vasari: rivista di studi manieristici', March 1963; XXIV, 1
pp. 1-2
pl. II
as by Vasari ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to fragility of drawing.

Inscription: Recto, all within the drawing, brown ink, artist's hand: left centre, second and third lines abraded: "SCVLPTVRA / [...] //"; centre: "michael Angnolo bonarota"; lower right within medallion: "MICHAEL ANGELO BVONAROTA"; lower left: "pitVRA et / Architettura //"; lower right: "pitura".

Collector's mark: unable to check the verso.

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