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Three compositions of a martyrdom
Maker
(artist)
ca. 1240-before 1302 (Life dates)
Chevalier Ignace Joseph de Claussin (printmaker)
1766-1844
(publisher)
1771-1836
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printed in brown
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Width: 20.9 cm
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Inscription: Pub. May 1 1809 by W.Y. Ottley. 43 Frith St. Soho. London. //
Inscription: J. J. de Claussin. Sc.t //
Label: THERE is good reason to believe that this curious / specimen of Cimabue's talents once formed the first / leaf of the celebrated volume, in which Vasari had / collected together the original designs of all the / greatest artists who flourished from the revival of / painting till his own time; it is in its original mount- / ing, and a proof impression of the portrait which he has given us of Cimabue, in his lives of the painters, / is introudced amongst the ornaments of the border. * / This drawing contains three compositions of a / martyrdom, in each of which are strongly evinced / the workings of a contemplative mind, directed in its / efforts to the legitimate end of painting, the expres- / sion of the subject. The unity of action in the ac- / cusing multitude, in the second design, is striking; / nor should we pass unnoticed the discrimination of / character and expression in the two judges in the / lower composition, one of whom seems to hesitate, as / if doubting the justice of the cruel sentence which / his more hasty colleague is about to confirm. / The unaccountable blindness of Cimabue to every / effect of perspective, is exemplified in this drawing. / Giotto, his scholar, though equally unacquainted / with the rules of that science, was seldom guilty of / similar enormities, and aided by a happy genius, has / sometimes succeeded in producing effects of lineal / perspective not very remote from those of nature. //
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