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Venus Reclining in a Landscape

Venus Reclining in a Landscape

c. 1508–9
(Italian, 1482–1515)
Italy, late 15th-early 16th Century
engraving
Platemark: 11.9 x 18.3 cm (4 11/16 x 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 11.9 x 18.3 cm (4 11/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1931.205
Catalogue raisonné: Hind V(II).202.13 ; Passavant V.165.11 ; Le Blanc I.575.10 ; Ottley II.769.8
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This artist's training as a gem cutter prepared him well for the relatively new art of engraving, which required carving into a copperplate with a sharp instrument called a burin.

Description

The Venetian artist Giulio Campagnola introduced the "dot manner," an engraving technique by which shading is created with dots and flicks produced with the point of the burin. This innovation allowed for a much greater range of tone and subtler gradations from dark to light. The effect imitated sfumato, a painting technique for creating soft atmospheric effects practiced by Venetian artists, such as Giorgione, at the time. The influence of and perhaps even the engraver’s collaboration with Giorgione is reflected in the extraordinary beauty and refinement of this rare early impression of Venus Reclining in a Landscape. The female nude reclining in a landscape was to become a distinctly Venetian subject in the 1500s.
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