prints - Religious Images
The Prophet Joel, after Michelangelo - Giorgio Ghisi The Rest on the Flight to Egypt, after Giulio Campi - Giorgio Ghisi The Prophet Joel, after Michelangelo - Giorgio Ghisi The Prophet Jeremiah, after Michelangelo - Giorgio Ghisi The Prophet Ezekiel, after Michelangelo - Giorgio Ghisi
The Prophet Joel, after Michelangelo
early 1570's
25 cm x 40 cm (9 13/16 in. x 15 3/4 in.)
Giorgio Ghisi (Mantua, Italy, 1520 - 1582, Mantua, Italy) Primary
Artist Nationality: Europe, Italian
Medium and Support: Engraving
Ghisi's engravings invest the grand design of mid-century Italian printmaking with the meticulous craft of Northern production. His rendering of six pendentives in the Sistine Ceiling, although likely an incomplete project, was the first substantial and worthy reproduction of Michelangelo's great invention. Each consists of two plates, which in the earliest impressions were printed on separate sheets, then trimmed and joined. This impression, from the top plate of one, is an extremely rare proof before the engraving was finished, therefore a fascinating demonstration of working method.
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