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"tombstone": "Tiburtine Sibyl and the Emperor Augustus, c. 1527\u201330/31. After Parmigianino (Italian, 1503\u20131540), Antonio da Trento (Italian, c. 1508\u2013c. 1550). Chiaroscuro woodcut (in brown-green and black); sheet: 34.1 x 25.9 cm (13 7/16 x 10 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1923.115",
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"title": "Tiburtine Sibyl and the Emperor Augustus",
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"measurements": "Sheet: 34.1 x 25.9 cm (13 7/16 x 10 3/16 in.)",
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"title": "Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions",
"description": "Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).",
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"title": "When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story",
"description": "When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982).",
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"title": "Printing in Color",
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"title": "Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620",
"description": "Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997).",
"opening_date": "1997-08-03T00:00:00"
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"title": "The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy",
"description": "The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (organizer) (June 3-September 16, 2018); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (October 14, 2018-January 20, 2019).",
"opening_date": "2018-06-03T04:00:00"
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"description": "Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/3/97 - 10/26/97. \"Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620.\"",
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"description": "Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (6/3/2018-9/16/2018) and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (10/14/2018-1/20/2019): \"The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy\"",
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"description": "This print depicts the Roman Emperor Augustus (reigned 27 BC\u2013AD 14) and the Tiburtine Sybil, one of several women that Apollo bestowed with prophetic powers. Augustus was deciding whether or not to accept apotheosis (recognition of the emperor as a god after death) and asked the Tiburtine Sybil for advice. At the moment the two met on the Capitoline Hill, the Madonna and Christ the Child appeared before them, revealing the coming of the child as the one who would have surpassed Augustus in ruling the world. Upon the site of the vision, Augustus had built an altar, the Aracoeli. Later, on the same spot, the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli was erected. Antonio da Trento probably made this print under the direct supervision of Parmigianino. In later printings, Antonio da Trento's line block went through two state changes. The CMA example represents the second state, characterized by the addition of hatching to the cheek of the attendant at the left of the composition.",
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"citation": "Goldfarb, Hilliard T. \u201cChiaroscuro Woodcut Technique and Andrea Andreani.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 9 (November 1981): 307\u2013330.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 315, fig. 13",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159744"
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"citation": "Takahatake, Naoko, et al. The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 112-116, cat. 32",
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"biography": "Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, better known as Parmigianino (1503-1540), was an Italian Mannerist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. In Parma and upon his arrival in Rome in 1524, he experimented with print to study works by artists he admired, such as Raphael. He fled Rome at the time of its sack in 1527, and he moved to Bologna. There, he began his engagement with chiaroscuro woodcuts, collaborating with Ugo da Carpi and Antonio da Trento. Parmigianino then returned to Parma in 1530.",
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"biography": "Little is known about Antonio da Trento's life, training, and career. Giorgio Vasari records that Antonio came from Trento. He was Parmigianino's principal collaborator, from whom he learned the technique of chiaroscuro woodcut while working in his Bolognese workshop as a printmaker and painter. Contrary to Vasari's statements, some scholars have proposed that ugo da Carpi instructed Antonio in the chiaroscuro technique in Rome. Antonio's identity was once erroneous conflated with an etcher ad painter from bologna, Antonio Fantuzzi, known to have worked at Fontainebleau in the 1530s-40s.",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-29 05:39:25.570000"
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