id: 105621 accession number: 1923.73 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.73 updated: 2022-01-27 10:01:24.985000 Virgin and Child with St. John, 1500s. Antonio da Trento (Italian, c. 1508–c. 1550), after Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540). Chiaroscuro woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1923.73 title: Virgin and Child with St. John title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1500s creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1600 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 16th century technique: chiaroscuro woodcut department: Prints collection: PR - Chiaroscuro type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Antonio da Trento (Italian, c. 1508–c. 1550) - artist 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. * Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540) - artist 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. --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: This chiaroscuro woodcut is designed after a preliminary drawing by Parmigianino, only differing in the addition of a detailed background of lush foliage. digital description: Enclosed in an oval and intimate space, the Virgin Mary holds Christ the Child on her lap, with the young Saint John the Baptist arranged to one side. Jesus's right sole is placed on the frame, creating the illusion his foot is resting on it. In his chiaroscuro woodcuts, Antonio da Trento usually favored gray ink rather than black for the line block, aiming for a pale effect and tonal unity. Furthermore, he exploited fine webs of hatching and cross-hatching to create contrasts between vigorous highlights and deep dark shadows. In all of these printing refinements, Antonio's technique was similar to Ugo da Carpi's chiaroscuro method, suggesting a close working relationship between these two printmakers. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.73/1923.73_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.73/1923.73_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.73/1923.73_full.tif