id:			108354
accession number:	1925.985
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.985
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The Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor (after a drawing by Girolamo da Treviso). Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610), Alessandro Gandini (Italian). Chiaroscuro woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1925.985

title:				The Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor (after a drawing by Girolamo da Treviso)
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creditline:			Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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culture:	Italy, 16th century
technique:	chiaroscuro woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Chiaroscuro
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Bartsch XII.65.25

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CREATORS

* Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610)  - artist
Born in Mantua in ca. 1559, Andrea Andreani was the most accomplished practitioner of chiaroscuro technique in late sixteenth-century Italy. Little is known about his initial training. He began as a blockcutter. Around 1583, he started to copy early line woodcuts into new chiaroscuro versions. He also reproduced intarsia pavements, sculptures, and bronze reliefs with the same method. Andreani was active in Rome (ca. 1580), Florence (1583-86), and Siena (1586-1593), before returning permanently to his native city and setting up a workshop. He died in Manuta in 1629. Andreani's oeuvre includes large prints comprising several sheets, such as his copy of <em>Triumph of Christ</em> after Titian, and copies of drawings based on Mantegna's cartoons for the <em>Triumph of Caesar</em>. Between 1602 and 1610, Andreani reprinted and recut earlier chiaroscuro woodblocks by Ugo da Carpi, Antonio da Trento and Niccolò Vicentino, bringing them to new levels of technical and visual refinement.
* Alessandro Gandini (Italian)  - artist

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state of the work:	II/II
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Inscribed on the step throne, in the lighter tone block: Taglio d'Alex.' Ghandini
Lower center, monogrammed: A (ndrea) A(ndreani) / IN MANTOVA / MDCX
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Seasonal Prints from the Museum Collection
	opening date:   1937-12-09T05:00:00
	<i>Seasonal Prints from the Museum Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 9, 1937-February 27, 1938).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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fun fact: 
A notarial document of 1564 refers to the artist of the print, Alessandro Gandini, as a "matematico" (mathematician), suggesting that Gandini likely dabbled in printmaking as an amateur rather than a professional practitioner.

digital description: 
This chiaroscuro woodcut was printed from three blocks in ochre and brown. It was likely based on a preliminary monochrome drawing for an altarpiece oil painting made by Girolamo da Treviso for the Boccaferri family chapel in the basilica of San Domenico in Bologna.

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