Description:
Second state
Label Text:
Marginal Latin inscription: Tyberio Delphino Phisicae Peritisso et C. / Optime merito / inventionem Hanc Exemii pictoris Antonii Corregiensis Grati Animi Ergo Dicat Sagratq. / Augustinus Carratius.
To Tiberio Delphino Phisicae Pertiss. and C., having best deserved it, he therefore dedicates and consecrates this piece by the outstanding painter Antonio Correggio with grateful mind. Agostino Carracci.
Christofano Cartaro was the alleged student of Cornelis Cort, to whom this print was given until recently. Cartaro’s reproductive engraving after Correggio’s altarpiece enjoyed popularity, having been copied six times by various other engravers, including Agostino Carracci, whose version is exhibited here. Despite its significant removal from Cort’s style, Agostino’s use of his swelling and tapering line is still present, as is his use of stippled dots in the areas of lightest shade.
Written by Susan Anderson, Ph.D., interim Mellon Coordinator of College Programs, 2009
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