id: 123630 accession number: 1944.20 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.20 updated: 2023-03-24 11:13:11.081000 Angelica and Medoro, c. 1570. Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520–1582), after Teodoro Ghisi (Italian, 1536–1601). Engraving; sheet: 29.6 x 20.9 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1944.20 title: Angelica and Medoro title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1570 creation date earliest: 1565 creation date latest: 1575 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: --- culture: Italy, 16th century technique: engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Lewis&Boorsch 43 --- CREATORS * Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520–1582) - artist * Teodoro Ghisi (Italian, 1536–1601) - designer --- measurements: Sheet: 29.6 x 20.9 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.) state of the work: i/iv edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(2) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: upper left, in plate: ANGELICA / MED ; upper center, in plate: ANGELICA / MEDORO ; lower left, in plate: GMF [in monogram] ; lower right, on tablet, in plate: TEODORO / GHISI IN. ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: cd / Feb 5 / 1874 / [Goupil?] ; lower left, in graphite: 19.69 / [hf-?] ; lower left, in graphite: c10746 [underlined] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Italian Prints and Drawings opening date: 1968-01-30T05:00:00 Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968). title: Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions opening date: 1980-10-21T04:00:00 Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981). title: Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620 opening date: 1997-08-03T00:00:00 Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997). title: Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art opening date: 2017-08-26T04:00:00 Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-December 31, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 117): February 7, 2013 - June 3, 2013. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This scene stems from Ludovico Ariosto’s (1474–1533) 16th-century best-seller Orlando Furioso, an epic poem in which Princess Angelica falls in love with Medoro, a soldier she nurses back to health. They are shown here declaring their union by carving their names “on every stone or shady tree.” Like the poet Ariosto, who updated a medieval chivalric story with classical themes, Teodoro and his brother, Giorgio, portrayed the lovers in the popular antique style. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.20/1944.20_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.20/1944.20_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.20/1944.20_full.tif